Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich
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Not to be confused with Alexander Spiridovich
Alexander Spiridovich
Alexander Spiridovich was a Russian police general and historian. He should not be confused with Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich.Spiridovitch was born in Arkhangelsk....

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Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich (1858—1926) was a Russia
Russians
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n Count who moved to the United States
United States
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 following the Bolshevik Revolution. He was a Tsarist general
General
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 and white Russian
White movement
The White movement and its military arm the White Army - known as the White Guard or the Whites - was a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forces.The movement comprised one of the politico-military Russian forces who fought...

 loyalist. He was involved in Pan-Slavism
Pan-Slavism
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 and White Russian activism, including various chivalric orders and cultural organisations, amongst the diaspora community in America. Spiridovich is perhaps best known for authoring a book positing various conspiracy theories entitled "Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand".

Biography

Spiridovitch was President of the Slavonic Society of Russia and of the Latino-Slavic League of Paris and Rome. Politically he was a supporter of the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II of Russia
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 and an opponent of Bolshevism.

According to Walter Laqueur
Walter Laqueur
Walter Zeev Laqueur is an American historian and political commentator. He was born in Breslau, Germany , to a Jewish family. In 1938, Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who were unable to leave, became victims of the Holocaust...

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(Lord Alfred Douglas dixit)30

Walter Laqueur, Russia and Germany (1965), p. 120.

Works

  • A Europe without Turkey—the security of France requires (1913)
  • Towards Disaster: Dangers and Remedies (1914)
  • How to Save England (1920)
  • Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand (1926) - a transcript may be found here http://www.resist.com/SecretGovernment-Spiridovich.pdf

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