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==Life==
==Life==
Born in [[Westminster]], Stenning left school aged {{frac|13|1|2}}.<ref name=Contributors>[http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/SU70.2.4.Contributors.pdf The Contributors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225319/http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/SU70.2.4.Contributors.pdf |date=3 March 2016 }}, ''Journal of William Morris Studies'', Vol. 2, No. 4 (1970), p.36. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> He joined the [[Social Democratic Federation]] in 1906, aged sixteen,<ref>H. J. Stenning, [http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/02.4Summer1970/SU70.2.4.Stenning.pdf 1906 and all that] ''Journal of William Morris Studies'', Vol. 2, No. 4 (1970), pp.31–3. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> and was a peace campaigner during [[World War I]].<ref name=Contributors/> He later joined the [[Independent Labour Party|ILP]], working at the ILP bakery in [[Bermondsey]] after the war.<ref>Ken Weller, ''Don't be a soldier!' The radical anti-war movement in north London 1914–1918'', [http://libcom.org/library/10-nlhl-russian-revolution#footnote2_nw9k3zg Ch. 10. The NLHL and the Russian Revolution]. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> In 1920 he criticised [[Bolshevism]] as 'a recrudescence of [[Blanquism]]' in an article for ''[[Labour Leader]]'',<ref>Ian Bullock, [http://fred.eu5.org/socialist-history/papers-2.html Labour Leader and the Bolsheviks], 2005. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> and published a translation of [[Karl Kautsky]]'s ''The Dictatorship of the Proletariat.<ref name="Bullock2011">{{cite book|author=Ian Bullock|title=Romancing the Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jsmlwO94yYC&pg=PA151|accessdate=2013-04-24|year=2011|publisher=Athabasca University Press|isbn=978-1-926836-12-6|page=151}}</ref>
Born in [[Westminster]], Stenning left school aged thirteen and a half.<ref name=Contributors>[http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/SU70.2.4.Contributors.pdf The Contributors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225319/http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/SU70.2.4.Contributors.pdf |date=3 March 2016 }}, ''Journal of William Morris Studies'', Vol. 2, No. 4 (1970), p.36. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> He joined the [[Social Democratic Federation]] in 1906, aged sixteen,<ref>H. J. Stenning, [http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/02.4Summer1970/SU70.2.4.Stenning.pdf 1906 and all that] ''Journal of William Morris Studies'', Vol. 2, No. 4 (1970), pp.31–3. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> and was a peace campaigner during [[World War I]].<ref name=Contributors/> He later joined the [[Independent Labour Party|ILP]], working at the ILP bakery in [[Bermondsey]] after the war.<ref>Ken Weller, ''Don't be a soldier!' The radical anti-war movement in north London 1914–1918'', [http://libcom.org/library/10-nlhl-russian-revolution#footnote2_nw9k3zg Ch. 10. The NLHL and the Russian Revolution]. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> In 1920 he criticised [[Bolshevism]] as 'a recrudescence of [[Blanquism]]' in an article for ''[[Labour Leader]]'',<ref>Ian Bullock, [http://fred.eu5.org/socialist-history/papers-2.html Labour Leader and the Bolsheviks], 2005. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> and published a translation of [[Karl Kautsky]]'s ''The Dictatorship of the Proletariat''.<ref name="Bullock2011">{{cite book|author=Ian Bullock|title=Romancing the Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jsmlwO94yYC&pg=PA151|accessdate=2013-04-24|year=2011|publisher=Athabasca University Press|isbn=978-1-926836-12-6|page=151}}</ref>
He also worked as a publisher's reader, and from 1925 ran a law stationers' business in the [[City of London]].<ref name=Contributors/>
He also worked as a publisher's reader, and from 1925 ran a law stationers' business in the [[City of London]].<ref name=Contributors/>


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* ''Cromwell & communism: socialism and democracy in the great English revolution'' by [[Eduard Bernstein]]. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
* ''Cromwell & communism: socialism and democracy in the great English revolution'' by [[Eduard Bernstein]]. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
* ''In defence of capitalism'' by [[Adolf Weber (economist)|Adolf Weber]]. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
* ''In defence of capitalism'' by [[Adolf Weber (economist)|Adolf Weber]]. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
* ''The experiment of Bolshevism'' by [[Arthur Feiler]]. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
* ''The experiment of Bolshevism'' by [[Arthur Feiler]]. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930; {{cite book |author = Arthur Feiler |title= The Russian Experiment |place= New York |publisher= Harcourt, Brace and Company |year = 1930 |url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76115/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}
* ''Before Jutland: [[Admiral von Spee]]'s last voyage; [[Battle of Coronel|Coronel]] & the [[Battle of the Falkland Islands|battle of the Falklands]]'' by Captain Hans Pochhammer. London: Jarrolds Limited, 1931.
* ''Before Jutland: [[Admiral von Spee]]'s last voyage; [[Battle of Coronel|Coronel]] & the [[Battle of the Falkland Islands|battle of the Falklands]]'' by Captain Hans Pochhammer. London: Jarrolds Limited, 1931.
* ''The call of the North'' by [[H. H. Houben]]. London: E. Mathews & Marrot, 1932..
* ''The call of the North'' by [[H. H. Houben]]. London: E. Mathews & Marrot, 1932..
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Henry James Stenning (1889–1971), known in print as H. J. Stenning and also known as Harry Stenning, was an English socialist and translator.

Life

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Born in Westminster, Stenning left school aged thirteen and a half.[1] He joined the Social Democratic Federation in 1906, aged sixteen,[2] and was a peace campaigner during World War I.[1] He later joined the ILP, working at the ILP bakery in Bermondsey after the war.[3] In 1920 he criticised Bolshevism as 'a recrudescence of Blanquism' in an article for Labour Leader,[4] and published a translation of Karl Kautsky's The Dictatorship of the Proletariat.[5] He also worked as a publisher's reader, and from 1925 ran a law stationers' business in the City of London.[1]

Works

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Translations

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  • The dictatorship of the proletariat by Karl Kautsky. Manchester: National Labour Press, [1918]
  • The manifesto of the Moscow International, signed by Lenin, Trotsky, Platten, Zinoviev, and Rakovsky. Manchester: National Labour Press, [1919]
  • The march towards socialism by Edgard Milhaud. London: Leonard Parsons, 1920.
  • (tr. with T. C. Partington) The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Max Beer. London, Manchester: National Labour Press, 1921.
  • Georgia: a social-democratic peasant republic. Impressions and observations by Karl Kautsky. London: International Bookshops, [1921].
  • Social struggles in antiquity by Max Beer. London: Leonard Parsons, 1922.
  • Socialisation in theory and practice by Heinrich Ströbel. London: P. S. King, 1922.
  • The German revolution and after by Heinrich Ströbel. London: Jarrolds, [1923].
  • The isles of wisdom by Alexander Moszkowski. London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1924.
  • Social struggles in the Middle Ages by Max Beer. London: L. Parsons, 1924.
  • Social struggles and socialist forerunners by Max Beer. London: L. Parsons, [1924].
  • The art of the theatre by Sarah Bernhardt. Translated from the French. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1924].
  • Samuel Pepys: a portrait in miniature by Jean Lucas-Dubreton. London: A. M. Philpot, ltd., [1924?].
  • The labour revolution by Karl Kautsky. London: Allen & Unwin, 1925.
  • The Anglo-Russian Report : A Criticism of the Report of the British Trades Union Delegation to Russia, from the Point of View of International Socialism by Friedrich Adler. London: P. S. King & Son, ltd, 1925.
  • The Austrian Revolution by Otto Bauer. London: L. Parsons, 1925.
  • Social Struggles and Thought (1750–1860) by Max Beer. London: L. Parsons, [1925].
  • The economic doctrines of Karl Marx by Karl Kautsky. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd, 1925.
  • Vienna under socialist rule by Robert Danneberg. London: Labour Party, [1925].
  • Selected essays by Karl Marx. London: Leonard Parsons, 1926.
  • Thomas More and his Utopia: with a historical introduction by Karl Kautsky. New York: International Publishers, 1927.
  • Cromwell & communism: socialism and democracy in the great English revolution by Eduard Bernstein. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
  • In defence of capitalism by Adolf Weber. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
  • The experiment of Bolshevism by Arthur Feiler. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930; Arthur Feiler (1930). The Russian Experiment. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company – via Internet Archive.
  • Before Jutland: Admiral von Spee's last voyage; Coronel & the battle of the Falklands by Captain Hans Pochhammer. London: Jarrolds Limited, 1931.
  • The call of the North by H. H. Houben. London: E. Mathews & Marrot, 1932..
  • Jovial King. Napoleon's youngest brother by Friedrich Max Kircheisen. London: E. Mathews & Marrot, 1932.
  • Fighting the French in Morocco by Albert Bartels. London: Alston Rivers, 1932.
  • Kings in exile by Otto Ernst. London: Jarrolds, 1933.
  • The resurrection of the dead by Karl Barth. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1933.
  • Man into woman. An authentic record of a change of sex. The true story of the miraculous transformation of the Danish painter Einar Wegener-Andreas Sparre by Niels Hoyer. London: Jarrolds, 1933.
  • Creation's doom by Desiderius Papp. London: Jarrolds, 1934.
  • Germany's secret armaments by Helmut Klotz. London: Jarrolds, 1934.
  • Life and death: the autobiography of a surgeon by Andrea Majocchi. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1937.
  • Tariff levels and the economic unity of Europe: an examination of tariff policy, export movements and the economic integration of Europe, 1913–1931 by Heinrich Liepman. London: G. Allen & Unwin.
  • Maginot of the line by Pierre Belperron. London: Williams and Norgate, 1940.
  • Paul Gauguin: letters to his wife and friends, ed. Maurice Malingue. London: Saturn Press, [1948].
  • Tragic Empress. The story of Elizabeth of Austria by Maurice Paléologue. London: Saturn Press, [1950].
  • London by Jacques Boussard. London; printed in France: Nicholas Kaye, 1951.
  • Venus in Furs. Together with the Back Czarina by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. London: Luxor Press, [1965].
  • Practical handicraft: I. Working in metal, leather, clay and other media by Prof. Fritz Walter. London: Mills & Boon, 1967.

Other

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  • 'Socialist Unity', Socialist Review, 12, (April 1914), pp. 157–64
  • (ed. with intro.) The causes of war by W. R. Inge, Lord Beaverbrook and others. London: Allen & Unwin, 1935.

References

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  1. ^ a b c The Contributors Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Journal of William Morris Studies, Vol. 2, No. 4 (1970), p.36. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  2. ^ H. J. Stenning, 1906 and all that Journal of William Morris Studies, Vol. 2, No. 4 (1970), pp.31–3. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  3. ^ Ken Weller, Don't be a soldier!' The radical anti-war movement in north London 1914–1918, Ch. 10. The NLHL and the Russian Revolution. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  4. ^ Ian Bullock, Labour Leader and the Bolsheviks, 2005. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  5. ^ Ian Bullock (2011). Romancing the Revolution. Athabasca University Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-926836-12-6. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
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