War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism

War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism
ISBN-10
0822309440
ISBN-13
9780822309444
Category
Political Science
Pages
348
Language
English
Published
1989-10-12
Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
R. Craig Nation

Description

The outbreak of World War I precipitated a schism in the international socialist movement that endures today. Heeding calls for "rational defense," the leading European socialist democratic parties abandoned their vision of peace and internationalism as an integral part of the struggle for social justice and set aside their view of interstate war as the clearest example of the irrational essence of competitive capitalism. Only the Zimmerwald Left, led by Lenin, continued to speak out for internationalism. R. Craig Nation utilizes sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Swedish to provide the first comprehensive history of the Zimmerwald Left as an international political tendency.

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