1. Herman Gorter was a leading member of the Tachtigers, a highly influential group of Dutch writers who worked together in Amsterdam in the 1880s, centered on De Nieuwe Gids.
13 Facts About Herman Gorter
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Herman Gorter rapidly followed this up with a book of short lyric poetry simply called Verzen in 1890, which, after initial bad reviews, was equally hailed as a masterpiece.
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Herman Gorter was known to have had a romantic relationship with the chemist Ada Prins from 1901.
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Herman Gorter was the first Dutch woman to hold a doctorate in chemistry.
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Herman Gorter revised it in 1915, with the new version being published in 1916.
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Herman Gorter joined the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1897.
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Herman Gorter replied that month in a letter explaining that he had such people, but raised political concerns over the direction of the Russian Revolution: Lenin had sanctioned the granting of concessions to the peasantry as regards establishing small scale agricultural production through land reform.
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Whereas, Herman Gorter saw Communist Revolution in Western Europe, particularly in German and England, arising from the seizure of power by the industrial working class, and saw extending property rights to small peasant businesses as undermining this.
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Herman Gorter thought that the right to national self-determination should and could only be realised in Western Europe as part of a socialist revolution.
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Herman Gorter implored Lenin to write something in support of this view.
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Lenin responded sending a copy of State and Revolution, which Herman Gorter offered to translate.
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Herman Gorter complained that 4 members of parliament had voted in favour of relief aid from the United States, and thus were siding with an imperialist faction.
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In 1918, the Social-Democratic Party changed its name to the Communist Party of Holland, and in 1919 Herman Gorter left the party.