{"id":498,"date":"2011-10-23T14:13:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=498"},"modified":"2011-10-23T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:46:03","slug":"taking-politics-out-of-the-trotsky-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/10\/23\/taking-politics-out-of-the-trotsky-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Politics Out of the Trotsky Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/s-trotsky-101811.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-499\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/s-trotsky-101811-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Few figures in Russian History are as controversial as Leon Trotsky. There are many reasons for this &#8211; some are to do with race, and some to do with politics. Have a look at at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/144469\/\">this<\/a> review in the Jewish Daily of a more positive recent biography\u00a0by <strong>Joshua Rubenstein.\u00a0<\/strong>It is called\u00a0<strong>Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary\u2019s Life. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our course Trotsky is a relatively minor figure. However, he is useful when you write about leadership and effectiveness. Compare his ruthless leadership of the Red Army in the Civil War with the Romanov effort in the First World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few figures in Russian History are as controversial as Leon Trotsky. There are many reasons for this &#8211; some are to do with race, and some to do with politics. Have a look at at\u00a0this review in the Jewish Daily &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/10\/23\/taking-politics-out-of-the-trotsky-debate\/\">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-498","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\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}