An article where Lenin expounded the views of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party on the nature, attitude and tactics towards the approaching imperialist war. This article was jointly written with Grigori Zinoviev, between July-August 1915, on the eve of the first representative meeting of the International Socialist Party held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland. In August of the same year, Geneva’s Social Democrats published several texts on the issue in Russian and in German languages and distributed them to the representatives attending the Zimmerwald meeting. It was later translated into French, Norwegian and other languages. When the Soviet Union, represented by Petrograd workers and the Red Army, published a pamphlet in Petrograd in 1918, the preface of the second edition was added. That pamphlet (part of the first and third and fourth chapters) was mainly written by Lenin. He also revised the whole book. The Chinese translation is included in Vol. 26 of the second revised edition of Complete Works of Lenin…
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