The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg - Hardcover

Rosa Luxemburg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844674533 ISBN 13: 9781844674534

Publisher: Verso, 2011

Synopsis

This is the most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, including 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht who were her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English translation; all help to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure.

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About the Author

ROSA LUXEMBURG (1871 1919) was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland, the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844674533
• ISBN 13: 9781844674534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Annelies Laschitza, Georg Adler, Peter Hudis