Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin4 September 1915
On the eve of the conference Lenin organizes a group of socialist internationalists, the Zimmerwald Left
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On the eve of the conference Lenin organizes a group of socialist internationalists, the Zimmerwald Left
Lenin appeals to all soldiers to lay down their arms. Calls for the "self determination of peoples". Calls for "peace without indemnities & without annexations". Calls for open civil war & the organisation of a new revolutionary international
The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists. The "internationalists" open their Conference in Switzerland. Opening day of a Conference of European anti-war Socialists.
The Zimmerwald Conference sees the beginning of the end of the coalition between left-wing socialists (communists) and right-wing socialists (social democrats) in the Second International.
The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists
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