{"id":870,"date":"2014-01-29T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=870"},"modified":"2014-01-29T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T08:57:05","slug":"what-do-todays-russians-think-about-lenin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2014\/01\/29\/what-do-todays-russians-think-about-lenin\/","title":{"rendered":"What do today\u2019s Russians think about Lenin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2014\/01\/Lenin-today.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-871\" alt=\"Lenin today\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2014\/01\/Lenin-today-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2014\/01\/Lenin-today-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2014\/01\/Lenin-today.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Please click <a href=\"http:\/\/rbth.co.uk\/society\/2014\/01\/21\/what_do_todays_russians_think_about_lenin_33421.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0for an article from RUSSIA &#8211; beyond the headlines. It discusses modern views of Lenin, and the never-ending question of what to do with his body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Today&#8217;s generation of Russians have rather mixed feelings when it comes to the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution . The issue of burying Lenin&#8217;s body, which is still kept in a mausoleum in Red Square, comes up again and again. For the older generation, however, he remains an important historical figure, whereas young people are often unable to tell him from a comic book hero&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have a read and see what you think. It touches on the question &#8211; how much is a historian&#8217;s views of the past informed by the time in which he or she lives ?\u00a0If this interests you, then search for my comments on AJP Taylor on the main site.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please click here\u00a0for an article from RUSSIA &#8211; beyond the headlines. It discusses modern views of Lenin, and the never-ending question of what to do with his body. &#8220;Today&#8217;s generation of Russians have rather mixed feelings when it comes to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2014\/01\/29\/what-do-todays-russians-think-about-lenin\/\">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":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enrichment-2","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}