{"id":460,"date":"2011-10-05T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=460"},"modified":"2011-10-05T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T11:59:29","slug":"khrushchev-the-reforming-communist-who-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/10\/05\/khrushchev-the-reforming-communist-who-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Khrushchev &#8211; the reforming Communist who failed ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/BUNDES1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-461\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/BUNDES1-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/BUNDES1-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/BUNDES1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As this picture suggests, Khrushchev was a very different figure from Stalin. He is most remembered for the Cuban Missile Crisis which ultimately brought\u00a0 him down. In the context of our domestic course he is usually portrayed as a failed reformer &#8211; we might like to ask is this enough ?<\/p>\n<p>September marks the 40th anniversary of his death, and\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/history\/14-09-2011\/119040-nikita_khrushchev-0\/\">this<\/a>\u00a0article from Pravda reviews his period in government (1956 &#8211; 1964) from a modern Russian point of view. See what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this picture suggests, Khrushchev was a very different figure from Stalin. He is most remembered for the Cuban Missile Crisis which ultimately brought\u00a0 him down. In the context of our domestic course he is usually portrayed as a failed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/10\/05\/khrushchev-the-reforming-communist-who-failed\/\">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-460","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\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}