He was more successful as a journalist and published articles in Monde, a political / literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse, – his first article as a professional writer, La Censure en Angleterre, appeared in that journal on 6 October 1928 – G. K .' s Weekly – where his first article to appear in England, A Farthing Newspaper, was printed on 29 December 1928 – and Le Progrès Civique ( founded by the left-wing coalition Le Cartel des Gauches ).

Henri Barbusse ( May 17, 1873 – August 30, 1935 ) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party.

The son of a French father and an English mother, Barbusse was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France in 1873.

In 1914, at the age of 41, he enlisted in the French Army and served against Germany in World War I. Invalided out of the army three times, Barbusse would serve in the war for 17 months, until the end of 1915, when he was permanently moved into a clerical position due to pulmonary damage, exhaustion, and dysentery.

Barbusse first came to fame with the publication of his novel Le Feu ( translated by William Fitzwater Wray as Under Fire ) in 1916, which was based on his experiences during World War I.

In 1927 Barbusse was a participant in the Congress of Friends of the Soviet Union in Moscow.

Barbusse was the author of a 1936 biography of Joseph Stalin, titled Staline: Un monde nouveau vu à travers un homme ( Stalin.

Serge called Barbusse a hypocrite who was determined to be on the winning side.

Barbusse was an Esperantist, and was honorary president of the first congress of the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda.

The parc Henri Barbusse was the site of the Château d ' Issy.

In 1930, an international petition on his behalf was sent to the Finnish defense minister Juho Niukkanen, which included the signatures of sixty British MPs and notables such as Albert Einstein, Henri Barbusse and H. G. Wells.

In this late period he made new connections to intellectuals like Henri Barbusse and Romain Rolland when he was co-signer in the foundation of Clarté, as well as E. D. Morel.

Rolland was fascinated with Istrati's adventurous life, urging him to write more, and publishing part of his works in the magazine he and Henri Barbusse owned, Clarté.

It was a periodical of a luxurious kind, each issue printed on several sorts of deluxe paper, with contributions by well-known authors, like Colette, Henry Gauthier-Villars, Laurent Tailhade, Josephin Peladan, Marcel Boulestin, Maxim Gorky, Georges Eekhoud, Achille Essebac, Claude Farrère, Anatole France, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Henri Barbusse, Jean Moréas and Arthur Symons.

While some of the French intellectuals who had been among his close comrades, such as Henri Barbusse, harshly criticized his continued opposition to Stalin, others continued to help him and soon won his release.

In 1925, Barbusse published " Chains ", showing history as the unbroken chain of suffering of people and their struggle for freedom and justice.

In 1934 Barbusse sent Egon Kisch to Australia to represent the International Movement Against War and Fascism as part of his work for the Comintern.

While writing a second biography of Stalin in Moscow, Barbusse fell ill with pneumonia, and died on August 30, 1935 He is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

The Russian Revolution had significant influence on the life and work of Barbusse.

Barbusse characterized the birth of Soviet Russia as " the greatest and most beautiful phenomenon in world history.

Barbusse subsequently led a violent press campaign against his former friend Panait Istrati-a Romanian writer who had expressed criticism of the Soviet state.

In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist, Henri Barbusse.

The resulting unsuccessful exclusion of Egon Kisch from Australia by the Conservative Australian Government succeeded in energising Communism in Australia and resulted in Kisch staying longer than Barbusse had intended.

* Hell ( novel ) ( L ' Enfer ), a novel by Henri Barbusse

Thereafter, he suffered a crisis of conscience mainly due to being branded a " Trotskyist " or even a " Fascist " by his former communist friends, the most violent of which proved to be Henri Barbusse.

with a preface by Henry Barbusse ( 1920 )

* Under Fire ( novel ) ( French: Le Feu ), a novel by Henri Barbusse

By this time, Barbusse had become a pacifist, and his writing demonstrated his growing hatred of militarism.

** Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist ( d. 1935 )

* August 30 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist ( b. 1873 )

* Barbusse and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

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The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.

He had dared to defy nature, to turn his back to the Lorelei, and he was punished.

If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.

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Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.

Every winter a kegful of this sauce was made and placed at the end of a row of four other kegs in the cellar, so that when its turn came, it was properly mellowed.

To greet them with repulsion would turn what before was neutral into something bad ; ;

The Colonial Light and Power Company was succeeded by the Vermont Hydro-Electric Corporation, which in turn was absorbed by the Central Vermont Public Service Corporation.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

Up to the turn of the century, contraception was condemned by all Christian churches as immoral, unnatural and contrary to divine law.

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He said he had promised Mrs. Borden to return in time for dinner and that was close to the time when he did turn up at the Borden house.

Though the slightest yank was frequently capable of producin' results, many men assured success through a turn of the tail 'bout the saddle horn, supplemented sometimes, in the case of cattle, by a downward heave of the rider's leg upon the strainin' tail.

I hurried over to the agency heap, jumped in, started the motor and was just in time to see the car I wanted to shadow turn to the left.

I was held up a bit trying to make a left turn.

Mr. Giorgio had started to turn left off Greenville Avenue onto Cherry Hill Road when his car was struck by the Pezza car, police said.

But plain old bean soup, served daily since the turn of the century ( at the insistence of the late Sen. Fred Dubois of Idaho ), made clear to the citizenry that the Senate's stomach was in the right place.

When it was my turn, I, too, printed the truth as I knew it about Batista, and rejoiced to see his regime topple.

Along about 4:30, just when it was getting to be about time to turn the audience over and toast them on the other side, Judy came on singing, in a short-skirted blue dress with a blue and white jacket that flapped in the wind.