Henri Barbusse

The Soviet Union and Peace - The Most Important of the Documents Issued by the Government of the U.S.S.R. Concerning Peace and Disarmament from 1917 T

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Produktbeschreibung

Henri Barbusse introduces this history of the Soviet Union, written only eleven years after the October revolution and the formation of the U.S.S.R. Barbusse was a firm believer in the power of Communism to bring peace to the world, his political views tempered by his experiences in the trenches of the first world war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Detzer Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781447469414
• ISBN-10: 1447469410
• Artikelnr.: 37032206

Autorenporträt

Henri Barbusse (1873 - 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein. The Russian Revolution had significant influence on Barbusse's life and work. He joined the French Communist Party in 1923 and later traveled back to the Soviet Union. His later works, Manifeste aux Intellectuels (Elevations) (1930) and others, show a more revolutionary standpoint. Of these, the 1921 Le Couteau entre les dents (The Knife Between My Teeth) marks Barbusse's siding with Bolshevism and the October Revolution. Barbusse characterized the birth of Soviet Russia as "the greatest and most beautiful phenomenon in world history." The book Light from the Abyss (1919) and the collection of articles Words of a Fighting Man (1920) contain calls for the overthrow of capitalism. In 1925, Barbusse published Chains, showing history as the unbroken chain of suffering of people and their struggle for freedom and justice. In the publicistic book The Butchers, he exposes the White Terror in the Balkan countries.