{"id":27092,"date":"2026-03-20T06:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27092"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:45:37","slug":"27092","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=27092","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The <em>Short Course<\/em> <em>[History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]<\/em> was truly a history of the party as Stalin saw it and wanted it to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The end product of Stalin&#8217;s efforts was a biased, distorted and simplistic account of the party&#8217;s history, one manufactured by omission, elision and rhetorical tricks. Stalin was a past master at using such devices to present versions of events that were self-serving but credible. That doesn&#8217;t mean he didn&#8217;t believe in the essential truth of his version of the party&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Geoffrey Roberts, <em>Stalin&#8217;s Library<\/em>, (London: Yale University Press, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2022), 193<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Short Course [History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union] was truly a history of the party as Stalin saw it and wanted it to be seen. The end product of Stalin&#8217;s efforts was a biased, distorted and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=27092\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}