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attendance by Chernov

In Viktor Mikhaylovich Chernov
…broke out, Chernov attended the Zimmerwald Conference of 1915 (a meeting convened by Italian and Swiss Socialists to press for immediate cessation of World War I) and supported the “defeatist” resolution of his party’s left wing, which condemned the “imperialist war.” But after he returned to Russia following the February…
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policies of Lenin

In Vladimir Lenin: Challenges of the Revolution of 1905 and World War I
…hold two anti-war conferences in Zimmerwald and Kienthal, Switzerland. Lenin failed at both meetings to persuade his comrades to adopt his slogan: “transform the imperialist war into civil war!” They adopted instead the more moderate formula: “An immediate peace without annexations or indemnities and the right of the peoples to…
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