Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- Worldwide Connections
- 12 The Second International: 1889–1914
- 13 The Second International Reconstituted: The Labour and Socialist International, 1923–1940
- 14 The Rise and Fall of the Asian Socialist Conference: 1952–1956
- 15 The Socialist International, 1951–, and the Progressive Alliance, 2013–
- 16 Municipal Socialism
- Southern Trajectories
- Left Socialisms
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
13 - The Second International Reconstituted: The Labour and Socialist International, 1923–1940
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- Worldwide Connections
- 12 The Second International: 1889–1914
- 13 The Second International Reconstituted: The Labour and Socialist International, 1923–1940
- 14 The Rise and Fall of the Asian Socialist Conference: 1952–1956
- 15 The Socialist International, 1951–, and the Progressive Alliance, 2013–
- 16 Municipal Socialism
- Southern Trajectories
- Left Socialisms
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
Summary
When the Second International gathered for an Extraordinary Congress in Basel on 24–25 November 1912, right in the middle of the Balkan wars, the congress became a massive anti-war rally where the leading social democratic parties1 once again underlined their commitment to struggling for peace under all circumstances. But, as is well known, in the early days of August 1914 they behaved differently and declared support for their respective fatherlands and therefore the war.
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Further Reading
Braunthal, Julius, History of the International, vol. ii, 1914–1943 (London: Nelson, 1967).Google Scholar
Haupt, Georges, Socialism and the Great War: The Collapse of the Second International (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972).Google Scholar
Horn, Gerd-Rainer, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).Google Scholar
Imlay, Talbot C., The Practice of Socialist Internationalism: European Socialists and International Politics, 1914–1960 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).Google Scholar
Nishikawa, Masao, Socialists and International Actions for Peace 1914–1923 (Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2010).Google Scholar
Socialist Internationals – A Bibliography. Publications of the Social-Democratic and Socialist Internationals 1914–2000. A Project by the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI), compiled by Gerd Callesen (Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 2001), also available at http://library.fes.de/library/english/si.html, last accessed 1 December 2020.Google Scholar
Wrynn, J. F. P., The Socialist International and the Politics of European Reconstruction: 1919–1930 (Amsterdam: Graduate Press, 1976).Google Scholar
The archive of the LSI is held by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and has been completely digitized. It is accessible at https://search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/ARCH01368, last accessed 1 December 2020.Google Scholar
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