{"id":182,"date":"2011-07-13T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=182"},"modified":"2011-07-13T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:31:46","slug":"why-the-crimean-war-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/07\/13\/why-the-crimean-war-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Crimean War Matters&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/07\/Deux-Freres-dArmes-French-soldiers-at-the-Battle-of-Inkerman-1854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-183\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/07\/Deux-Freres-dArmes-French-soldiers-at-the-Battle-of-Inkerman-1854-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Our course starts with the end of the Crimean War and the death of Nicholas I. The book review below from the New York Times of Orland Figes&#8217; new book on the topic is most helpful. In particular you might like to consider his comments on the quality (or rather lack of it) of the Tsar&#8217;s leadership. This is an issue that will come up in our writing in many forms.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=182&amp;action=edit\">New York Times &#8211; Book review &#8211; Why the Crimean War Matters &#8211; O Figes &#8211; Reviewed by Gary J. Bass<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our course starts with the end of the Crimean War and the death of Nicholas I. The book review below from the New York Times of Orland Figes&#8217; new book on the topic is most helpful. In particular you might &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/07\/13\/why-the-crimean-war-matters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}