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Jewish Memory and Loss

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 July 2023

This entry was posted in Book Review, History and tagged Antisemitism, Batnadiv HaKarmi, Einsatzgruppen, Europe, Hebrew Bible, Holocaust, Holocaust-by-bullets, Ioudaismos, Jews, Judaism, Nazism, poems, poetry, Poland, religion, Russia, Second World War, Tanakh, The Love of Mortal Beings, Ukraine on July 18, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Albigensian Crusade, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Alexander Benckendorff, Alexander Boshniak, Alexander Golitsyn, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Radishchev, Anastasy Kuzmin, Ancient Greece, Arkady Maiboroda, Arzamas Society, assassination, Astolphe de Custine, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Kulm, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of the Nations, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Waterloo, Bolsheviks, Britain, Catherine the Great, Catholicism, Charles XII, chinovnik, Christianity, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Classical world, Classics, Committee of Public Safety, Congress of Vienna, conspiracy, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrist wife, Dekabristka, egalitarianism, Ekaterina II, Ekaterina Trubetskaya, Enlightenment, espionage, Freemasonry, French Revolution, Greek Revolution, Gustav Goebel, Higher Police, Illarion Vasilchikov, Illuminati, Inquisition, Inquisitors, intelligentsia, Ippolit Muravyov-Apostol, Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Vitt, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Jews, John Sherwood, Joseph Stalin, Klemens von Metternich, Kondraty Ryleyev, Konstantin, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Lord Byron, Ludwig Niklaus von Stürler, Marquis de Custine, Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Mikhail Kutuzov, Mikhail Miloradovich, Mikhail Speransky, Nakaz, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Nicholas I, Nikita Muravyov, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, Nikolay Panov, Northern Society, Operation BARBAROSSA, Orthodox Christianity, Paul I, Pavel I, Pavel Kiselyov, Pavel Pestel, Philaret Drozdov, Poland, Protestantism, Pyotr Chaadayev, Pyotr Kakhovsky, Roman Catholic Church, Romanovs, Romanticism, Russian Truth, Russkaya Pravda, secret police, secularism, Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Sergey Trubetskoy, socialism, Society of United Slavs, Southern Society, Soviet Union, Spain, spies, Talleyrand, Terror, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third Section, Treaties of Tilsit, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Salvation, Vasily Davydov, Vendée War, Viscount Castlereagh, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Raevsky, Vladimir Rayevsky, Wilhelm Küchelbecker on June 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Ada Brooks, Adolf Hitler, Andrea Chalupa, Animal Farm, Bolshevik Revolution, chemical weapons, China, collectivisation, Communism, concentration camps, Cultural Revolution, David Lloyd George, dekulakisation, Democrats, Edgar Allan Poe, espionage, Eugene Lyons, fake news, famine, FDR, First World War, Five-Year Plan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gareth Jones, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Orwell, Germany, Great Depression, Great Man Theory, GULAG, History, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, international law, James Norton, Japan, Joseph Mawle, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kenneth Cranham, KGB, kulaks, Magnificent Five, Marcin Czarnik, Metro-Vickers Affair, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Mr. Jones, Nazis, Nazism, NKVD, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Paul Kleb, Paul Klebnikov, Red China, Richard Nixon, Robert Conquest, Russia, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, spies, subversion, surveillance, terror-famine, The Harvest of Sorrow, The Masque of the Red Death, The New York Times, theology, totalitarianism, Treaty of Berlin, Treaty of Rapallo, Treaty of Versailles, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Walter Duranty, weapons of mass destruction, Weimar Germany, WMD, Zhou Enlai on April 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Role and (the Lack of) “Justice” At Nuremberg

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Seidl, Andrey Vyshinsky, Aron Trainin, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan crisis, Baltics, Ben Ferencz, Bessarabia, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Boris Bazilevsky, Britain, Burdenko Report, Claus von Stauffenberg, colonialism, Communism, concentration camps, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, Czechoslovakia, espionage, Estonia, Eugen Oberhauser, Europe, Finland, France, Francine Hirsch, Franklin Roosevelt, Friedrich Ahrens, Friedrich Gaus, General Melchett, Geoffrey Lawrence, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Liddell, Hans Frank, Hans Fritzsche, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Hermann Göring, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hjalmar Schacht, House of Commons, IADL, ICC, ICRC, IMT, Intelligence, intelligentsia, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Criminal Court, International Katyn Commission, international law, International Military Tribunal, Iona Nikitchenko, Iran, Iron Curtain, Jews, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, justice, Katyn massacre, Kharkov Trial, Korean War, Krasnodar Trial, Latvia, Leonid Raikhman, Lev Smirnov, Lithuania, Lubyanka, Marko Markov, MI5, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Trials, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazis, Nazism, Nikolai Zorya, Nikolay Burdenko, NKVD, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Otto Stahmer, Poland, Red Army, Reinhard von Eichborn, Roman Rudenko, Rudolf Hess, Russia, Second World War, secret police, Secret Protocols, Sergei Kolesnikov, show trial, SMERSH, Solomon Lozovsky, Soviet Union, spies, Tatiana Stupnikova, Telford Taylor, Thomas Dodd, totalitarianism, Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ukraine, United Nations, USSR, victor’s justice, Viktor Prozorovsky, war crimes, West Germany, Winston Churchill, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Yezhovshchina on April 11, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

What To Make of China “Brokering” the Saudi-Iran Deal

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Gulf States, Iran, Iran Deal and tagged Abqaiq attack, Abqaiq-Khurais attack, America, ARAMCO, Barack Obama, China, Donalt Trump, Egypt, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Lebanon, maximum pressure, political warfare, proxy war, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia militias, Soviet Union, subversion, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Yemen on March 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 February 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, Austria, Bolsheviks, Bulgaria, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catherine the Great, Cold War, Communism, Constantinople, Germany, Golden Horde, GULAG, Islam, Ivan the Terrible, John Kennedy, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kievan Rus, Latin Christendom, League of the Militant Godless, Leon Trotsky, Lithuania, Living Church, Mikhail Gundyaev, Mongols, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nazism, Nikita Khrushchev, NKVD, Old Believers, Papal Revolution, Patriarch Kirill, Patriarch Nikon, Peter the Great, Poland, Raskol, Romanovs, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Shuya Memo, Soviet Union, Stoglavy Synod, symphonia, Tatar Yoke, Tatars, Third Rome, Tsar, Tsardom, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Uniate Church, Vikings, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, World Council of Churches on February 6, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Turkey and tagged active measures, AKP, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, blasphemy, Chang Frick, Christianity, Danish cartoons, European Committee for Prophet Honouring, Finland, Hard Line, Iran, Islamism, Justice and Development Party, Jyllands-Posten, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Muslims, NATO, PKK, propaganda, Rasmus Paludan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Salman Rushdie, Saudi Arabia, secularism, Stram Kurs, Sweden, The Satanic Verses, theology, Turkey, Ukraine on January 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Christianity, the West, and Russia’s War on Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 November 2022

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged abortion, Aleksandr Dugin, autocracy, Azov Regiment, Bible, Bolsheviks, charity, China, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, Communism, concentration camps, cults, Devil, divorce, Dmitri Medvedev, Donald Trump, Fifth Project, genocide, GULAG, GUR, Holy See, holy war, Hungary, ideology, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, jihad, Joe Biden, Joseph Stalin, just war, Kyrylo Budanov, liberals, Main Directorate of Intelligence, Mikhail Vasiliev, Mitrokhin Archive, Muslims, NATO, NKVD, Novichok, Oleksiy Arestovych, Orthodox Christianity, Patriarch Kirill, philosophy, Poland, post-liberals, progressives, propaganda, Protestantism, Ramzan Kadyrov, Reform Baptists, religion, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Russiagate, Russian Orthodox Church, Salisbury, Satan, secret police, sexual revolution, Soviet Union, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Uniates, Uyghurs, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Visegrád Group, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Solovyov, Volodymyr Zelensky, war crimes, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, woke, wokeness, Zionists on November 20, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Could Britain Have Saved the Tsar?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 November 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Alexander Ievreinov, Alexander II, Alexander III, Alexander Kerensky, Alexandra Feodorovna, Alexandra of Denmark, Alfonso XIII, Anton Denikin, ARCOS affair, Arthur Balfour, Arthur Bigge, Battle of the Somme, Black Hundreds, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Brusilov Offensive, Christian X, Constituent Assembly, Cossacks, Crimea, Czech Legion Aleksandr Kolchak, Dagmar, David Lloyd George, Duma, Eugene Botkin, Eugene Kobylinsky, Evno Azef, February Revolution, First World War, Francis Bertie, George Buchanan, George V, Germany, Glorious Revolution, God, Grigory Rasputin, Gustaf V, Henry Hyndman, Herbert Asquith, HMS Marlborough, Ice March, Ispolkom, Japan, Jews, Jonas Lied, July Days, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Kornilov Affair, Kuklin House, liberals, Lord Stamfordham, Marxism, Meiji Japan, Mikhail Alexandrovich, Mikhail Tereshchenko, Nicholas II, Nicholas Nikolaevich, Nicholas Nikolayevich, October Manifesto, Okhrana, Okhranka, Orthodox Christianity, Pavel Milyukov, Pierre Gilliard, Provisional Government, Pyotr Stolypin, Queen Victoria, Ramsay MacDonald, Red Terror, religion, Robert Cecil, Romania, Romanovs, Russian Revolution, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, Siberia, Soviet Union, starets, Trans-Siberian Railway, Tsar, Tsarina, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, Woodrow Wilson, Yalta, Yevno Azef on November 7, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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