{"id":4000,"date":"2014-09-30T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2015-01-14T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:36:47","slug":"ivan-iv-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/09\/30\/ivan-iv-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan IV Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was Ivan well-liked or at least tolerable in the 1540s and 1550s, prior to his institution of the oprichnina? Does the oprichnina mark the period in which Ivan&#8217;s mental health deteriorated or was he extremely paranoid throughout his entire rule? What exactly was the oprichnina?\u00a0I know it was a second, separate administration instituted by Ivan but what was its intended goal?\u00a0Did the oprichnina have any other function besides its infliction of a reign of terror?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Ivan well-liked or at least tolerable in the 1540s and 1550s, prior to his institution of the oprichnina? Does the oprichnina mark the period in which Ivan&#8217;s mental health deteriorated or was he extremely paranoid throughout his entire rule? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/09\/30\/ivan-iv-questions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110565],"tags":[104577,104579,104578,87004],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist253-archive","tag-ivan-iv","tag-muscovite-russia","tag-oprichnina","tag-reign-of-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}