Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg
ISBN-10
0241126851
ISBN-13
9780241126851
Series
Rosa Luxemburg
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
64
Language
English
Published
1989
Publisher
Hamilton
Author
Wendy Forrest

Description

Born in Tsarist Poland in 1871, Rosa Luxemburg was a member of an illegal socialist organization by the time she was 16. She was active in the Polish underground and had to be smuggled to Zurich after a wave of strikes. She later moved to Germany, to be at the centre of international socialism, and became a prominent political leader. She was imprisoned for her outspoken opposition to the World War I and later led thousands of workers in the German uprising of 1918. A few months later she was brutally murdered, beaten to death by soldiers acting on government orders.

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