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Barbusse praised Stalin, whom he called in his personal notes as "great comrade", as a man with "the head of a scholar, with the figure of a worker, and with the dress of a simple soldier" and as the only true heir of Lenin; one of the phrases of the book, "Stalin is the Lenin of today", became one of the most celebrated slogans of the Stalin ...
Oct 25, 2013 · This article represents the first sustained critical analysis of Henri Barbusse’s Staline (1935), the first official biography of Joseph Stalin. The author traces Barbusse’s evolution from a Goncourt-winning pacifist writer in the immediate post-World War I years to his position as a Stalinist propagandist at the end of his life.
- Andrew Sobanet
- 2013
Oct 11, 2016 · This article scrutinizes the political relationship between Stalin and the French writer Henri Barbusse between 1927 and 1935. Barbusse is the only European intellectual who met Stalin four times; he was therefore, in all respects, an exception among Western intelligentsia.
- Romain Ducoulombier
- 2016
Oct 25, 2013 · This article represents the first sustained critical analysis of Henri Barbusse’s Staline (1935), the first official biography of Joseph Stalin. The author traces Barbusse’s evolution from a Goncourt-winning pacifist writer in the immediate post-World War I years to his position as a Stalinist propagandist at the end of his life.
- Andrew Sobanet
- 2013
Jan 17, 2017 · Stalin by Henri Barbusse. Publication date 1935 Topics State Collection digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan Language English. Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015 ...
May 13, 2024 · Henri Barbusse was a novelist, author of Le Feu (1916; Under Fire, 1917), a firsthand witness of the life of French soldiers in World War I. Barbusse belongs to an important lineage of French war writers who span the period 1910 to 1939, mingling war memories with moral and political meditations.
This early work by Henri Barbusse is on the social and political history of Russia. Barbusse was a French author and a member of the Communist Party. This particular work is on the life and times of the Russian leader Stalin.
