Rosa Luxemburg's Views on the Russian Revolution

by Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin analyzes Rosa Luxemburg's activity in the German revolution from the time of her release from prison in November 1918 until her murder by soldiers in the pay of the Social-Democratic government. She shows that, despite Luxemburg's earlier criticism of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party in Russia, she was following essentially the same policies as the Bolsheviks in the last months of her life.

226 pages, Paperback

Published April 6, 2017

About the author

Clara Josephine Zetkin née Eißner (5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist, politician and advocate for women's rights.

Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933.