{"id":605,"date":"2012-04-02T09:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T09:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=605"},"modified":"2012-04-02T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T09:23:28","slug":"nothing-lies-like-a-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2012\/04\/02\/nothing-lies-like-a-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing lies like a photograph&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2012\/04\/ablackseafamily.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-606\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2012\/04\/ablackseafamily-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Or so they say. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/in-pictures-17449958\">This<\/a>\u00a0BBC slideshow of photographs made on the eve of revolution by the Russian ariotocrat, Sergei Michaolovich\u00a0Prokudin-Gorrskii can even make povertry look beautiful. It is of course literally a snapshot of a world that was about to disappear, and that alone is enough to make it noteworthy.<\/p>\n<p>For our course however it gives a visual representation of Lenin&#8217;s declaration that the Tsar&#8217;s Empire was in fact a &#8220;prison of peoples&#8221;. In an age of growing nationalism this was only ever going to increase as a problem. Indeed, it is possible to argue that the official\u00a0policy of Russification\u00a0usually made things worse. Here we can note that many of the leading Communists came from the repressed races. Trotsky was a Jew, Lenin had Tartar blood, Stalin and Beria were Georgians and Khrushchev was from\u00a0Ukrainian peasant stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so they say. This\u00a0BBC slideshow of photographs made on the eve of revolution by the Russian ariotocrat, Sergei Michaolovich\u00a0Prokudin-Gorrskii can even make povertry look beautiful. It is of course literally a snapshot of a world that was about to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2012\/04\/02\/nothing-lies-like-a-photograph\/\">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-605","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\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}