{"id":3380,"date":"2025-01-20T16:33:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:33:50","slug":"review-i-knew-stalin-by-anatole-v-baikaloff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-i-knew-stalin-by-anatole-v-baikaloff\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: I Knew Stalin, by Anatole V. Baikaloff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No, he didn&#8217;t.  The author of this short book, a former Bolshevik, apparently met Stalin briefly before the 1917 revolution, and says that the man didn&#8217;t make much of an impression.  The remaining 90% of the book consists of an unoriginal rant about how evil Stalin was.  Like other books of its time (this was published in 1940), the idea that Stalin had been a secret agent of the tsarist police seems quite a reasonable one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, he didn&#8217;t. The author of this short book, a former Bolshevik, apparently met Stalin briefly before the 1917 revolution, and says that the man didn&#8217;t make much of an impression. The remaining 90% of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3380","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\/3380","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=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}