# Outline for an Article on the Zimmerwald Conference
# Source: Lenin Collection, Volume XIV, p. 188
# Date: September 1915

1 8 8
SPD and L — K. Radek; Central Executive Committee of the SPD and L — A. Barsky; the “Levites” of the PPS — Lapinski.
Hoch — “High,” presumably a German centrist delegate named Vogtherr (Vogtherr).
8 Not yet determined.
4 The representative of the Frankfurt Left remains unidentified.
5 The representative of the Bund was Klemanski.
Here we are referring to the commission tasked with drafting the manifesto.
Of the 31 delegates who took part in the vote, 12 cast their ballots in favor of submitting the resolution to the commission for further deliberation, while 19 voted against it.
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V. I. Lenin.
* OUTLINE FOR AN ARTICLE ON THE ZIMMERWALD CONFERENCE.
[Mid‑September 1915]
NB^ (1) Axelrod’s report: defending and shielding Our Dawn.
(2)
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the Bulgarian’s report: the 1912 soldiers’ uprising in the Balkan War.
(3) Morgari’s “crash” (a “simplistic” stance—on Germany, etc.)
(i)
Bourderon: Lenin, you wish to formulate the Third International… but that is not why we have come here.
5) A private meeting on Saturday (peace as an illusion—and a phrase that holds true under present-day governments).
(6) Kautsky’s (and Co.’s) attempt—to travel to Bern in order to wrest the cause of the Second International’s restoration from the hands of Grimm and Co.
(7) The Latvian’s report.
(8)
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C. K.
(9) The Bundist’s conduct.
(10) Letter No. 1 from Liebknecht (“Civil War”). …*** Two quotations from “Eh Garde” ****2
(11) The vote against the credits (Lederburg’s hysterical outburst)
* — one‑sided in his views and conclusions. Ed.
** — Bourderon: Lenin, you wish to formulate the Third International. Ed.
*** — “civil war.” Ed.
The words “Two quotations from ‘Eh Garde’” were written in the margins. Ed.