23 Facts About Zimmerwald Conference

Zimmerwald Conference was held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 to 8,1915.

Zimmerwald Conference began the unraveling of the coalition between revolutionary socialists and reformist socialists in the Second International.

Zimmerwald Conference became the most prominent socialist opponent of the war in Europe.

Zimmerwald Conference met with the Belgian socialist leader Emile Vandervelde, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bureau, seeking the ISB's support.

Zimmerwald Conference met with Trotsky, Victor Chernov, and French anti-war socialists grouped around Merrheim and Pierre Monatte.

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Zimmerwald Conference invited "all parties, labor organizations, or groups within them" opposed to the war and loyal to the Second International's anti-war resolutions.

Zimmerwald Conference put significant effort into keeping it secret, reserving the rundown Hotel Beau Sejour in Zimmerwald, a village near Berne, for an "ornithological society".

Zimmerwald Conference wrote to his contacts to ensure that the left was well-represented.

Zimmerwald Conference was most disappointed that the Dutch left refused to participate in a conference attended by moderates, even offering to pay for their trip to Switzerland.

Zimmerwald Conference brought together delegates from both sides of the war, but disagreements did not follow national lines.

Zimmerwald Conference recounted how the meeting came to be and attacked the ISB for its inactivity.

Zimmerwald Conference called on the conference to "raise up the flag of socialism, which had slipped from the hands of the appointed representatives of socialism, and to erect over the gory battlefields the true symbol of humanity".

Zimmerwald Conference pointed out that of the European socialist movements, Russian social democracy was the only movement that was united in its opposition to the war.

Zimmerwald Conference explained that this was due to the fact that Russian Czarism was so unambiguously counter-revolutionary.

Zimmerwald Conference decided to establish an Executive Bureau consisting of Grimm, Lazzari, and Rakovski to handle procedural matters.

Zimmerwald Conference introduced a draft resolution of his own, in opposition to the left's.

Zimmerwald Conference insisted that it state that Germany was more to blame for the war than other countries.

Positions expressed in the Zimmerwald Conference Manifesto were, for the most part, in line with the Second International's pre-war resolutions.

Yet, news of the Zimmerwald Conference was slow to spread through Europe, partly due to censorship.

Significance of the Zimmerwald conference was that it gave socialist opponents of the war a psychological boost.

The Zimmerwald Conference movement spread as far as Siberia where a group of Mensheviks adopted the positions of Zimmerwald Conference's moderate wing.

All that was truly revolutionary in the Zimmerwald Conference union has passed over to and joined with the Communist International.

The Twenty-one Conditions for admission to the Comintern were very similar to the platform of the Zimmerwald Conference left and much of the international communist movement that emerged in the post-war years arose from the Zimmerwald Conference left.