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Luxemburg, Rosa
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Luxemburg, Rosa (b. 5 Mar. 1870, d. 15 Jan. 1919). Co-founder of the German Communist Party Born in Russian Poland, she acquired German citizenship and entered the German
SPD (Social Democratic Party) in 1898. From 1907 to 1914 she taught at the Socialist Party school in Berlin. She was hostile to
Bernstein's revisionism, urging instead a revolution through the instrument of the general strike. At the same time, against
Lenin she insisted on a more democratic variety of
Communism. With K.
Liebknecht she opposed World War I and founded the
Spartakist Group to that end in 1916. She was murdered by members of the
Freikorps when she led a rising of Spartakist workers in the streets of Berlin.
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Rosa Luxemburg: a life.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 4/25/1987; ; 700+ words
; ROSA LUXEMBURG: A Life. Rosa Luxemburg preached non-violentspontaneous revolution, but died the...kind of revolutions. She reanimates Rosa by reimagining her. Rosa Luxemburg was born in 1870and spent most of her early years in Warsaw...
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Rosa Luxemburg.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 4/25/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...only--impression of Rosa Luxemburg. She attempts to make...were men and women like Luxemburg who spoke out passionately...Trotta depoliticized her Rosa in order to minimize...far subtler and finer. Luxemburg's life also demonstrates...
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Rose is a rose is a rose: Gregory Sholette on Hans Haacke's memorial to Rosa Luxemburg.(ON SITE)(Column)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...remains an ultimate icon: Rosa Luxemburg, fiery orator, Marxist...s slide into war was for Luxemburg not based on pacifism. "Rote Rosa" (Red Rosa), as she was...the mytho-historical icon Rosa Luxemburg breathed life. [ILLUSTRATION...
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The essential Rosa Luxemburg; reform or revolution & the mass strike.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 562 words
; 9781931859363 The essential Rosa Luxemburg; reform or revolution & the mass strike. Luxemburg, Rosa. Ed. by Helen Scott. Haymarket...pages $12.00 Paperback HX274 Rosa Luxemburg is an icon to both socialists...
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The Essential Rosa Luxemburg.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 5/1/2008; 553 words
; The Essential Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg, author Helen Scott, editor Haymarket Books PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618 9781931859363, $12.00 www.haymarketbooks.org 1-773-583-7884 Rosa Luxemburg was a visionary socialist in Germany...
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Pathologist claims to have found body of Rosa Luxemburg 90 years later
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 6/1/2009; ; 447 words
; ...the body of communist campaigner Rosa Luxemburg, 90 years after she was killed...founded the German Communist Party, Luxemburg was arrested, killed and her body...months later a body said to be Luxemburg's was put in the empty coffin...
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Is mystery corpse the body of red hero Rosa Luxemburg?
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 5/30/2009; 499 words
; ...the body of the assassinated revolutionary heroine Rosa Luxemburg may never have been buried there at all. Pathologists...bears a striking similarity to the body of the real Rosa Luxemburg," said Dr Michael Toskos, head of the pathology...
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The ghost of Rosa Luxemburg
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...2008 Headline: The ghost of Rosa Luxemburg Byline: SARAH HONIG Edition...more unlikely for communist icon Rosa Luxemburg's ghost to haunt than Israel...ideological internationalists like Rosa, Zionism was anathema. Though...
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'ROSA LUXEMBURG' AT SOMERVILLE FRIDAY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/12/1987; ; 700+ words
; Margarethe von Trotta's "Rosa Luxemburg," filmed last year, will receive its belated Boston commercial...left'? It's far human." Barbara Sukowa's portrayal of Luxemburg won her the 1986 best actress award at Cannes. Showtimes...
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The ghosts of Rosa Luxemburg
Magazine article from: Washington Jewish Week; 2/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...more unlikely for communist icon Rosa Luxemburg's ghost to haunt than Israel...ideological internationalists like Rosa, Zionism was anadiema. Though she...nationalists and reviled as a Jew, Rosa's antipathy to Jewish causes was...
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Rosa Luxemburg
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) was a Polish revolutionary and theorist. She led the German workers' uprisings which followed World War I and is considered one of the pioneer activists and foremost martyrs of the international Communist...
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Luxemburg, Rosa
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Luxemburg, Rosa 1870 or 1871-1919 Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish Marxist revolutionary as well as the most relevant figure of the left wing of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). Together with Leo Jogiches (1867 – 1919), she...
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Marxism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...s revisionism), and the left (by Rosa Luxemburg's spontaneism). Bernstein criticized...of Marxism's revolutionism, whilst Luxemburg was opposed to the acceptance of parliamentarianism. Luxemburg's ideas briefly challenged the dominance...
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Karl Liebknecht
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the government during World War I. In 1915 he and Rosa Luxemburg formed the Internationale, a revolutionary, antiwar...proclamation of the German republic in Nov., 1918. With Rosa Luxemburg he opposed the moderate government formed by the Social...
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von Trotta, Margarethe
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...1983 Heller Wahn (Sheer Madness ) (+ sc) 1986 Rosa Luxemburg 1987 episode of Felix 1988 Paura e amore (Three Sisters...Frankfurt, 1981. Heller Wahn, Frankfurt, 1983. Rosa Luxemburg, with Christiane Ensslin, Frankfurt, 1986. By von...
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