On Imperialist War. Selected Writings: 1

This volume is a collection of Lenin’s writings on the crucial question of the position of revolutionary Marxists towards war and, more specifically, in relation to the First World War.

When the war broke out in 1914, the Socialist International betrayed its own anti-war resolutions and gave wholehearted support to the imperialist slaughter.

Lenin started a battle, against the stream, to defend the working-class principles of internationalism, explaining that the war was an imperialist one and therefore the main enemy of the workers was at home. War eventually gave way to revolution and ultimately to the foundation of a new, Communist International.

Lenin’s writings on the struggle against the imperialist war are a vital resource for revolutionary activists today.

This is the first of a series of thematic collections of Lenin’s writings by Wellred Books, published to mark the centenary of his death in 2024.

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  1. Note on Dates
  2. Introduction

1907

  1. The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart

1914

  1. The War and Russian Social-Democracy
  2. Dead Chauvinism and Living Socialism

1915

  1. To the Editors of ‘Nashe Slovo’
  2. The Conference of the RSDLP Groups Abroad
  3. The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War
  4. The Question of Peace
  5. Socialism and War
  6. The Draft Resolution of the Left Wing at Zimmerwald
  7. Appeal on the War
  8. The Defeat of Russia and the Revolutionary Crisis
  9. The First Step
  10. Revolutionary Marxists at the International Socialist Conference, 5-8 September 1915

1916

  1. Opportunism and the Collapse of the Second International
  2. Speech Delivered at an International Meeting in Bern
  3. Proposals Submitted by the Central Committee of the RSDLP to the Second Socialist Conference at Kienthal
  4. Peace Without Annexations and the Independence of Poland as Slogans of the Day in Russia
  5. The Junius Pamphlet
  6. A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism (extract)
  7. The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution
  8. A Separate Peace

1917

  1. Bourgeois Pacifism and Socialist Pacifism
  2. An Open Letter to Boris Souvarine
  3. To the Workers Who Support the Struggle Against the War and Against the Socialists Who Have Sided With Their Governments
  4. How To Achieve Peace (Fourth ‘Letter from Afar’)
  5. Report at a Meeting of Bolshevik Delegates to the All-Russia Conference of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies
  6. The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (April Theses)
  7. Resolution of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(B)
  8. Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the RSDLP(B)
  9. Bolshevism and ‘Demoralisation’ of the Army
  10. Is There a Way to a Just Peace?
  11. The Revolution, the Offensive and Our Party
  12. To the Central Committee of the RSDLP
  13. The Struggle Against Economic Chaos – and the War
  14. Marxism and Insurrection
  15. The Tasks of the Revolution
  16. Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies
  17. Wireless Message of the Council of People’s Commissars
  18. For Bread And Peace

Appendices

  1. Resolution of the Seventh International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart
  2. Manifesto of the Extraordinary International Socialist Congress at Basel
  3. Manifesto of the International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald
  4. Declaration of sympathy for the war victims and the persecuted, adopted by the International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald
  5. Draft Resolution and Manifesto Submitted by the Left Wing Delegates at Zimmerwald
  6. Two Declarations of the Zimmerwald Left
  7. Kienthal Manifesto
  1. Timeline
  2. Glossary

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