{"id":1471,"date":"2019-02-27T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2019-02-27T17:03:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:03:23","slug":"anne-applebaum-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/27\/anne-applebaum-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Applebaum on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAs I listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne_Applebaum\">Anne Applebaum<\/a>, it appears that her current interest is  in understanding how propaganda works and how it is being actually used. [A topic covered by Noam Chomsky&#8217;s <i>Manufacturing Consent<\/i>] Although propaganda is universal, her interest is focused on Russia, her field of expertise. She is the author of: \n<br><i>Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe<\/i> (1994); \n<br><i>Gulag: A History<\/i> (2003); \n<br><i>Gulag Voices: An Anthology<\/i> (2011); \n<br><i>Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56<\/i> (2012) \n<br><i>Red Famine: Stalin&#8217;s War on Ukraine<\/i> (2018)\n<p>\nDisinformation &#038; the Threat to Democracy (Jan. 4, 2019 at the Library of Congress)\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WUINPnVx_WQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  \n\n <p>\n\nIn Jan. 2013, she gave a lecture.  Putinism: the Ideology. I would add to this title: Fake democracy by Fake opposition, by Real control, and by Real assassination.\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wt_6mPxgUNI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I listened to Anne Applebaum, it appears that her current interest is in understanding how propaganda works and how it is being actually used. [A topic covered by Noam Chomsky&#8217;s Manufacturing Consent] Although propaganda is universal, her interest is focused on Russia, her field of expertise. She is the author of: Between East and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/27\/anne-applebaum-on-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anne Applebaum on Russia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-news","category-linguistic-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}