{"id":1756,"date":"2017-02-22T19:04:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonings.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2017-04-26T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:14:46","slug":"stalin-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"Stalin in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bristol Festival of Ideas have invited me along to Waterstones, The Galleries, Bristol, to\u00a0talk about Stalin’s scientists on\u00a024 April at\u00a07pm.\u00a0“The Soviet Union\u2019s sciences were the largest and best funded in history,” it says in this here programme, “and were at once the glory and laughing stock of the intellectual world” — a description that might well apply to me. Anyway, I’m going to be speaking. Come listen. Tickets are \u00a36<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bristol Festival of Ideas have invited me along to Waterstones, The Galleries, Bristol, to\u00a0talk about Stalin’s scientists on\u00a024 April at\u00a07pm.\u00a0“The Soviet Union\u2019s sciences were the largest and best funded in history,” it says in this here programme, “and were … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,391],"tags":[431,429],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-stalin-the-scientists","tag-book-festival","tag-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}