Author | Rosa Luxemburg |
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Original title | Die Russische Revolution |
Translator | Bertram Wolfe (English edition published 1940 by Workers Age Publishers, New York) |
Country | German Empire |
Language | German |
Genre | Political philosophy |
Publisher | Paul Levi |
Publication date | 1922 |
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The Russian Revolution ( German: Die Russische Revolution) is a pamphlet written in 1918 by Polish- German Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg. It was posthumously published in 1922 by fellow Spartacist Paul Levi. [1]
Luxemburg discusses the 1917 February and October revolutions in Russia. Her three major criticisms of the policies implemented by the Bolshevik Party were its korenizatsiya policy of self-determination for ethnic minorities, its distribution of land to individual peasant farmers instead of immediate collectivization, and its anti-democratic dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly. [2] In general, Luxemburg was critical of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin's centralization of power and creation of a single party state, [3] and the suppression of civil liberties such as freedom of the press, association and assembly. [4]
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