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Henry Stenning

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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 proletariatbyKarl 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 socialismbyEdgard Milhaud. London: Leonard Parsons, 1920.
(tr. with T. C. Partington) The life and teaching of Karl MarxbyMax 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 practicebyHeinrich Ströbel. London: P. S. King, 1922.
The German revolution and after by Heinrich Ströbel. London: Jarrolds, [1923].
The isles of wisdombyAlexander 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 theatrebySarah Bernhardt. Translated from the French. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1924].
Samuel Pepys: a portrait in miniaturebyJean 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 SocialismbyFriedrich Adler. London: P. S. King & Son, ltd, 1925.
The Austrian RevolutionbyOtto 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 rulebyRobert Danneberg. London: Labour Party, [1925].
Selected essaysbyKarl 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 revolutionbyEduard Bernstein. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
In defence of capitalismbyAdolf Weber. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
The experiment of BolshevismbyArthur Feiler. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
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 NorthbyH. H. Houben. London: E. Mathews & Marrot, 1932..
Jovial King. Napoleon's youngest brotherbyFriedrich Max Kircheisen. London: E. Mathews & Marrot, 1932.
Fighting the French in MoroccobyAlbert Bartels. London: Alston Rivers, 1932.
Kings in exile by Otto Ernst. London: Jarrolds, 1933.
The resurrection of the deadbyKarl 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 SparrebyNiels Hoyer. London: Jarrolds, 1933.
Creation's doombyDesiderius Papp. London: Jarrolds, 1934.
Germany's secret armamentsbyHelmut Klotz. London: Jarrolds, 1934.
Life and death: the autobiography of a surgeonbyAndrea 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 linebyPierre 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 AustriabyMaurice Paléologue. London: Saturn Press, [1950].
LondonbyJacques Boussard. London; printed in France: Nicholas Kaye, 1951.
Venus in Furs. Together with the Back CzarinabyLeopold 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 warbyW. R. Inge, Lord Beaverbrook and others. London: Allen & Unwin, 1935.

References

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^ ^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.

^ H. J. Stenning, 1906 and all that Journal of William Morris Studies, Vol. 2, No. 4 (1970), pp.31–3. Retrieved 24 April 2013.

^ 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.

^ Ian Bullock, Labour Leader and the Bolsheviks, 2005. Retrieved 24 April 2013.

^ 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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