{"id":3086,"date":"2024-02-04T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T09:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2024-02-04T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T09:29:57","slug":"review-comrade-valentine-by-richard-e-rubenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-comrade-valentine-by-richard-e-rubenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Comrade Valentine, by Richard E. Rubenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sixty years after Boris Nicolaevsky wrote his account of the notorious Ievno Azef &#8212; the most infamous police agent to ever infiltrate a revolutionary organisation &#8212; Richard E. Rubenstein took a crack at the same subject.  His book, published 30 years ago, is very readable and well-researched.  It&#8217;s probably a better introduction to the Azef case than Nicolaevsky&#8217;s.  Interestingly, Rubenstein says he learned more about what might have motivated Azef to betray his comrades from John LeCarre&#8217;s fiction than from other sources.  To me, the Azef case &#8212; like those of Roman Malinovsky and Josef Stalin &#8212; is endlessly intriguing, and teaches us much about how underground revolutionary parties functioned in tsarist times, and how they were manipulated by the Okhrana, the tsarist police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty years after Boris Nicolaevsky wrote his account of the notorious Ievno Azef &#8212; the most infamous police agent to ever infiltrate a revolutionary organisation &#8212; Richard E. Rubenstein took a crack at the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}