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Zimmerwald in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Zimmerwald in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

21 records7 event labels4 people1915โ€“1916

Historical events in Zimmerwald

1915

1915
Bolshevik Party
Yuly Osipovich Martov ยท Menshevik Party

Prevents Lenin creating a Bolshevik revolutionary civil war

1915
Conference of Zimmerwald
Yuly Osipovich Martov ยท Menshevik Party

Prevents Lenin creating a Bolshevik revolutionary civil war

1915
Menshevik Party
Yuly Osipovich Martov ยท Menshevik Party

Prevents Lenin creating a Bolshevik revolutionary civil war

4 September 1915
Bolshevik Party
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

On the eve of the conference Lenin organizes a group of socialist internationalists, the Zimmerwald Left

4 September 1915
Conference of Zimmerwald
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

On the eve of the conference Lenin organizes a group of socialist internationalists, the Zimmerwald Left

4 September 1915
Zimmerwald Left
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

On the eve of the conference Lenin organizes a group of socialist internationalists, the Zimmerwald Left

5 September 1915
Bolshevik Party
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

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

5 September 1915
Bolshevik Party
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

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.

5 September 1915
Bolshevik Party
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

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.

5 September 1915
Conference of Zimmerwald
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

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

5 September 1915
Conference of Zimmerwald
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

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.

5 September 1915
Conference of Zimmerwald
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

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.

5 September 1915
Conference of Zimmerwald
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท World War, 1st

Calls for "peace without indemnities & without annexations"

5 September 1915
International, 2nd
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

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

5 September 1915
Zimmerwald Conference
Julius Martov ยท Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Joins anti-war socialists opposing the imperial war.

5 September 1915
Zimmerwald Conference
Leon Trotsky ยท World War, 1st

Attends the international socialist anti-war conference at Zimmerwald, which meets from 5 to 8 September.

5 September 1915
Zimmerwald Conference
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Presses for revolutionary defeatism at the anti-war socialist conference.

8 September 1915
Zimmerwald Manifest
Leon Trotsky ยท World War, 1st

Drafts the Zimmerwald Manifest, adopted by the international socialist conference opposing the continuation of the war.

1916

5 September 1916
Bolshevik Party
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

5 September 1916
Conference of Zimmerwald
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

5 September 1916
International, 2nd
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin ยท Bolshevik Party

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

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