The war of 1914-1918, which was on both sides of the imperialist (that is, a seizure, predatory, robbery) war, was primarily a war over the redistribution of colonies, "spheres of influence" of financial capital, etc. This thesis, which is one of the main ones in Lenin's doctrine of imperialism, was fully proved by Lenin on "an analysis of the objective position of the commanding classes in all belligerent powers" and on the basis of all "the totality of data on the basics of economic life of all warring powers and the whole world."