{"id":338,"date":"2011-07-20T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-07-20T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:06:56","slug":"humanising-stalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/07\/20\/humanising-stalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanising Stalin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/07\/Stalin-and-Nadezhda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/07\/Stalin-and-Nadezhda-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/07\/Stalin-and-Nadezhda-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/07\/Stalin-and-Nadezhda-200x198.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The link below is to a really interesting article by Simon Sebag Montefiore. He asks the question, <em>&#8220;History portrays Stalin as an inhumane and vicious leader &#8211; but he was a man as well as a monster. Do we betray his victims by noting his human side, or will the full picture help guard us against potential tyrants in the future?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have a look and perhaps comment what you think.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0like the writing style of Montefiore, then you might like to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Stalin-Court-Simon-Sebag-Montefiore\/dp\/0753817667\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311169008&amp;sr=8-1\">The Court of the Red Tsar<\/a>\u00a0. There is a copy in the school library.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/worldwars\/coldwar\/stalin_01.shtml\">Humanising Stalin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The link below is to a really interesting article by Simon Sebag Montefiore. He asks the question, &#8220;History portrays Stalin as an inhumane and vicious leader &#8211; but he was a man as well as a monster. Do we betray &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/07\/20\/humanising-stalin\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}