The Zimmerwald Conference, held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 to 8, 1915, was the first of three international conferences convened by anti-militarist socialists in response to the outb
The Hotel Beau Séjour, site of the Zimmerwald conference, in 1864
Yuliy Osipovich Tsederbaum, better known as Julius Martov, was a Russian Marxist theorist, revolutionary, and a leader of the Mensheviks, the minority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour P
Zimmerwald Conference
…the ISB hostage, to which Vandervelde replied: "Yes, but a hostage for freedom and justice." In Paris, Morgari also held discussions with the Menshevik Julius Martov who convinced him of the necessity of a conference of anti-war socialists independent of the ISB. This idea was boosted by the fact that at the same…
Martov in 1910
Martov after his arrest in 1892
Members of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, 1895. Martov is seated on the right, next to Vladimir Lenin.