• Luxemburg on Revolution

  • Mar 9 2021
  • Length: 46 mins
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Luxemburg on Revolution

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  • Rosa Luxemburg wrote ‘The Russian Revolution’ (1918) from a jail cell in Germany. In it she described how the Bolshevik revolution was going to change the world but also explained how and why it was already going badly wrong. David explores the origins of Luxemburg’s insights, from her experiences in Poland to her love/hate relationship with Lenin. Plus he tells the story of her terrible end.


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    Going Deeper:


    • Vladimir Lenin, ‘What Is to be Done?’ (1902)
    • Hannah Arendt, ‘A Heroine of Revolution,’ The New York Review of Books (1966)
    • Kate Evans, Red Rosa (2015)
    • (Audio): In Our Time, 'Rosa Luxemburg' (2017)

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