{"id":3394,"date":"2025-02-05T16:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:04:45","slug":"review-roman-malinovsky-a-life-without-a-cause-by-ralph-carter-elwood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-roman-malinovsky-a-life-without-a-cause-by-ralph-carter-elwood-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Roman Malinovsky: A Life Without a Cause, by Ralph Carter Elwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is not the first time I have read this short book and that&#8217;s probably because it is proving to be so useful to me in my understanding of how the tsarist police (the <em>Okhrana<\/em>) penetrated the Bolshevik and other revolutionary parties in the years before 1917.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roman Malinovsky, who is little remembered today, was Lenin&#8217;s favourite proletarian, described as the &#8220;Russian Bebel&#8221; (even though he was Polish).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He rose to the very top of the Bolshevik party &#8212; leader of its faction in the 4th State Duma, member of its Russian Committee and of the party&#8217;s Central Committee as well.  Lenin defended him nearly to the end, but following his return to Russia in 1918, he was tried, found guilty of being a police spy, and shot.  He was not the only Okhrana agent near the top of the Bolshevik party, but not all were exposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the first time I have read this short book and that&#8217;s probably because it is proving to be so useful to me in my understanding of how the tsarist police (the Okhrana)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","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\/3394","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=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}