{"id":940,"date":"2017-12-01T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=940"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:51:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T10:51:48","slug":"book-launch-6-december-at-6pm-lenin-lives-reimagining-the-russian-revolution-1917-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2017\/12\/01\/book-launch-6-december-at-6pm-lenin-lives-reimagining-the-russian-revolution-1917-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Book launch, 6 December at 6pm &#8211; Lenin Lives!\u00a0Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/cunliffe.html\">Dr Philip Cunliffe<\/a>&#8216;s new book:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zero-books.net\/books\/lenin-lives\"><em>Lenin Lives!\u00a0Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2017\/12\/Lenin-Lives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-944 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2017\/12\/Lenin-Lives.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Launch for <em>Lenin Lives! Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017<\/em>. Zero Books (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6pm, Wednesday 6 December 2017<\/p>\n<p>University of Kent, Keynes College, Seminar room 17 (KS17)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What if the Russian Revolution had succeeded in spreading beyond the borders of Russia as intended by the Bolshevik revolutionaries over 100 years ago? What would a different twentieth century have looked like? This is the premise of this new book, published in September 2017 by Zero books. No tale of the Russian Revolution is complete without asking \u2018what if \u2026?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Canterbury book launch was held on Wednesday 6 December in Keynes Seminar Room 17 on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent. Guests came along for a free drink and for a brief introduction to the themes of the book. Discounted copies of the book were also be available for purchase. The event was free and open to all (university staff, students and the general public).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent launched Dr Philip Cunliffe&#8216;s new book:\u00a0Lenin Lives!\u00a0Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017 Book Launch for Lenin Lives! Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2017\/12\/01\/book-launch-6-december-at-6pm-lenin-lives-reimagining-the-russian-revolution-1917-2017\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131003,131000,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}