page_title: Haavard Langseth
hierarchical_section_title: Haavard Langseth
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Haavard LangsethEnglish: Haavard Langseth, communist party activist
context_page_description: Haavard Langseth was a political activist in the Communist Party of 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.
  In 1952 Langseth was involved in the launch of Orientering, edited by Jacob Friis in 1952. 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.
context_section_description: Haavard Langseth (7 July 1888 – 12 April 1968) was a political activist in the Communist Party of 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.
  In 1952 Langseth was involved in the launch of Orientering, edited by Jacob Friis in 1952. 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.
caption: Haavard Langseth, 1939
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