{"id":618,"date":"2012-04-03T21:17:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=618"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:20:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:20:49","slug":"re-stalinisation-russian-publisher-refuses-to-withdraw-stalin-notebook-from-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2012\/04\/03\/re-stalinisation-russian-publisher-refuses-to-withdraw-stalin-notebook-from-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Re -Stalinisation ? Russian publisher refuses to withdraw Stalin notebook from schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Following on from the previous post on Putin this<\/a>\u00a0article from today’s Guardian introduced me to a new term – re-Stalinisation.<\/p>\n

The dispute focuses on a new school text book which names Stalin as one of twenty Great Russians. \u00a0Miriam Elder suggests “Liberal figures have been fighting against creeping “re-Stalinisation” in Russia. Three years ago, a refurbished Moscow metro station was opened featuring a large quote from the dictator. Last summer, members of the Communist party unveiled a bust of Stalin in the central Russian city of Penza.” <\/em>In a similar vain, Orlando Figes claims here<\/a>\u00a0that “his Russian publisher had cancelled a contract to publish his latest book on life under Stalin, saying it had apparently dumped the project because of political pressure”.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first story\u00a0presses lots of buttons for me. Beyond drift to reaction point I made in the earlier post, it also raises the question of what school History should be for.<\/p>\n

One final thought – the book also includes Ivan the Terrible. Stalin greatly admired Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich, but claimed he made one mistake – at the end of his life he repented\u00a0his brutality. Stalin however, never said sorry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from the previous post on Putin this\u00a0article from today’s Guardian introduced me to a new term – re-Stalinisation. The dispute focuses on a new school text book which names Stalin as one of twenty Great Russians. \u00a0Miriam Elder … Continue reading →<\/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-618","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\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}