ABSTRACT
The story of the formation of the International Working Men’s Association at a meeting held in London in September 1864, as well as its subsequent history until its death in 1876 in New York, has been told elsewhere. ( 1 ) It is interesting to note, however, that a Russian section was formed at Geneva in March 1870,( 2 ) but between 1876 and 1899 there was no International Working Men’s Association, till at a Labour Congress held in Paris in 1889 the Second International was formed. During the European war international socialists came to be divided into three groups, which Lenin distinguishes as follows:—
