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Armenians and Academia
How scholarly consensus is made and what to make of it.
 • Kyle Orton
The Armenian Revolutionary Movement in the Ottoman Empire Up to 1915
The story of one of the first “national liberation” movements
 • Kyle Orton
Mostafa Chamran and the Other Islamic Revolution Network in Lebanon
Palestinians were not Ayatollah Khomeini’s only allies in Lebanon.
 • Kyle Orton
Gavriil Korganov, Russia, and the Ottoman-Armenians
A Great War memoir of exploits daring, dangerous, and ultimately tragic
 • Kyle Orton
The Russian “Whites” Were Not Monarchists
The anti-Bolshevik forces fought to let Russians choose their government, not to restore the Tsar.
 • Kyle Orton
The Internal Politics of the Islamic Revolution Behind the Seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Iran
Khomeini’s problem was that U.S.-Iranian relations were improving
 • Kyle Orton
The Palestinian Matrix of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
The consequences of 1979 are with us still.
 • Kyle Orton
The Soviet Campaign Against Pinochet’s Chile
Moscow’s propaganda networks and global terrorism apparatus worked right down to the end.
 • Kyle Orton
The Downfall of Salvador Allende
Fragments from a Cold War life
 • Kyle Orton
The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement, 1866 – 1876: Nihilism, “The People”, and Defining Terrorism’s Purpose
Sergey Nechayev, the “Going to the People” Experiment, and Pyotr Tkachov
 • Kyle Orton
The Most Infamous Russian Revolutionary Manifesto of the Nineteenth Century
“The Revolutionary Catechism”, by Sergey Nechayev
 • Kyle Orton
Why There is No Peace Between Israel and the Palestinians
A Telling Example From the Oslo Process
 • Kyle Orton
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