Haavard Langseth

Last updated
Haavard Langseth, 1939 Haavard Langseth 01.jpg
Haavard Langseth, 1939

Haavard Langseth (7 July 1888 – 12 April 1968) was a political activist in the Communist Party of Norway.

Communist Party of Norway communist party

The Communist Party of Norway is a small Marxist–Leninist communist party in Norway.

Langseth went to Moscow as a delegate to the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern in 1920 and was appointed to the Provisional International Bureau of Kultintern at an ancillary conference held a few days later. [1]

Moscow Capital city of Russia

Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits, 17 million within the urban area and 20 million within the metropolitan area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities.

2nd World Congress of the Comintern

The 2nd World Congress of the Comintern was a gathering of approximately 220 voting and non-voting representatives of Communist and revolutionary socialist political parties from around the world, held in Petrograd and Moscow from July 19 to August 7, 1920. The 2nd Congress is best remembered for formulating and implementing the 21 Conditions for membership in the Communist International.

Kultintern was an international organisation set up to enable the Russian Proletkult organisation to work with an international network of contacts alongside the Comintern. Its goal was to spread "proletarian culture". It was first proposed in an issue of Gorn, publication of Proletkult, during the First Congress of the Communist International, March 1919, but practical steps were only taken during the Second Congress of the Communist International.

In 1952 Langseth was involved in the launch of Orientering , edited by Jacob Friis in 1952. [2] However he was forced to withdraw following a large meeting in January 1953, when a large majority of those present wanted the magazine to adopt an equally critical attitude to the Soviet Union. [2]

Orientering was a Norwegian newspaper which was initially published in December 1952 as an alternative voice. It was absorbed into Ny Tid in 1975.

Soviet Union 1922–1991 country in Europe and Asia

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata, and Novosibirsk. It spanned over 10,000 kilometres east to west across 11 time zones, and over 7,200 kilometres north to south. It had five climate zones: tundra, taiga, steppes, desert and mountains.

Related Research Articles

Bolsheviks faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The Bolsheviks, originally known as Bolshevists or Bolsheviki, were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The RSDLP was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk, Belarus to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party.

Anatoly Lunacharsky Russian Marxist revolutionary

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1875 – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for Ministry and Education as well as active playwright, critic, essayist and journalist throughout his career. His works on Christianity were highly influential among Soviet Christians.

David Knopfler English musician

David Knopfler is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, record producer, poet, and author. He is the younger brother of guitarist Mark Knopfler.

Bogdanov (Богданов) or Bogdanova is a common Russian surname that derives from the given name Bogdan and literally means Bogdan's. Translated: Bogu dan = God gave. Notable people with the surname include:

Proletkult organization

Proletkult, a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura", was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917. This organization, a federation of local cultural societies and avant-garde artists, was most prominent in the visual, literary, and dramatic fields. Proletkult aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working-class aesthetic, which drew its inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in backward, agrarian Russia.

Ergatocracy is a type of government dominated by the labour and solidarities similar to communist beliefs. It refers to a society ruled by the working class. The term was coined by Eden and Cedar Paul in their book Creative Revolution: A Study of Communist Ergatocracy.

RV <i>Marcus Langseth</i>

R/V Marcus Langseth is a research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University as a part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. The Marcus G. Langseth was dedicated on December 4 2007, came into service in early 2008, replacing the R/V Maurice Ewing. Langseth is intended primarily to collect multichannel seismic data, including 3-D surveys. The ship was purchased from the geophysical survey company WesternGeco in 2004, having previously been named M/V Western Legend.

Dag Herbjørnsrud Norwegian historian

Dag Herbjørnsrud is a historian of ideas, author, Aeon writer, and founder of Center for Global and Comparative History of Ideas in Oslo. In the Norwegian book "Global Knowledge" and in an essay on the blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas (JHI) he argues for the need of a "global history of ideas".

Ny Tid was a Norwegian newspaper established in 1899 by the typographers Joh. Halseth and Alf Scheflo at the same time as they established their own printing office in Trondheim. The publishers meant to create a worker's newspaper, not a socialist paper. When the first issue came out on 20 September, the newspaper was an organ of the Liberal Party of Norway, but the paper quickly became socialist and thus an organ of the labour movement and later the Norwegian Labour Party in Trondheim when the labour movement took over the paper in July 1900. The paper was first released weekly, but from 1902 on it was released daily.

Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov was a Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion. He was born in Leningrad. He won a gold medal in the 300 m rifle 3 pos at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, as his teammate Lev Vainshtein won the bronze medal. He won a gold medal in the 50 m rifle 3 pos at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He died on 30 September 2001.

Anders Johnsen Buen was a Norwegian typographer, newspaper editor, trade unionist and politician. He belonged to the Norwegian Labour Party from the start, being party secretary as well as editor of the party organs Social-Demokraten and Ny Tid, but politically he was described as a "reformist pragmatic", and was thus a member of the breakaway Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway from 1921 to 1927.

Ny Tid is a Swedish language Green leftist monthly magazine published in Finland.

Yakov Yakovlev Soviet politician

Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev was a Soviet politician.

Alexander Bogdanov Physician, philosopher, writer

Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and revolutionary.

Hotell is a 2013 Swedish drama film written and directed by Lisa Langseth. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Hans Langseth holds record for the longest beard

Hans Nilson Langseth was a Norwegian-American who held the record for the world's longest beard.

Raymond Lefebvre French politician, journalist and writer

Raymond-Louis Lefebvre was a French writer and political activist. He attended the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern in 1920, but disappeared in the Barents Sea whilst returning.

<i>Euphoria</i> (2017 film) 2017 Lisa Langseths film

Euphoria is a Swedish-British-German drama film written and directed by Lisa Langseth in her English-language debut. It was screened in the Platform section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

References

  1. ↑ Biggart, John. "Alexander Bogdanov and the short history of the Kultintern". Alexander Bogdanov Library. Historical Materialism. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 Bromark, Stian. "Det startet med krangling". Ny Tid. Ny Tid. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.