{"id":1134,"date":"2006-02-25T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/25\/114086948508224457\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T21:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T21:58:14","slug":"114086948508224457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/114086948508224457\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair, Russia and democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Has Tony Blair been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/articles\/2006-02-24-hosking-en.html\" title=\"Eurozine - Dictatorship of law\">getting ideas from Russia<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The social custom keeping communities in Russia together \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd <i>krugovaia poruka<\/i>, or &#8216;joint responsibility&#8217; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd has been used by the authorities as a means of control since Tsarism. In the Soviet period, <i>krugovaia poruka<\/i> became the terror of the group over the individual: ordinary people denounced each other out of suspicion and envy. Even today, <i>krugovaia poruka<\/i> remains deep inside the personality of most Russians. Many identify democracy and the rule of law with an insecure and troubled existence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A somewhat relevant &#8211; and fascinating &#8211; article on how attempts to introduce concepts of human rights and constitutional reform can go wrong, and how the people can become disillusioned with them just as much as governments&#8230;<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has Tony Blair been getting ideas from Russia? &#8220;The social custom keeping communities in Russia together \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd krugovaia poruka, or &#8216;joint responsibility&#8217; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd has been used by the authorities as a means of control since Tsarism. In the Soviet period, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/114086948508224457\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blair","category-former-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}