1986, ISBN: 0807070068

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[EAN: 9780807070062], [PU: Boston. 1986. Beacon Press], Jacket, tan & brown 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding s… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780807070062], [PU: Boston. 1986. Beacon Press], Jacket, tan & brown 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. few faint specks on the top edge. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). b&w frontis. map. 286p. 34 b&w illustrations. note on transliteration and translation. notes. sources. credits. name index. subject index. biography. german history. world war i. politics. russian revolution. german revolution. ~Assassinated in 1919 at the age of forty~nine, Rosa Luxemburg did not achieve the fame won by many of her socialist contemporaries. The past twenty years, however, have seen a remarkable resurgence of interest in Luxemburg. A leading figure in the Polish Social Democratic Party and the German Social Democratic Party at the turn of the century, she was a pivotal character in the Second (Socialist) International. Most previous biographers have neglected Luxemburg the woman in favor of the political thinker. Elzbieta Ettinger provides an intimate portrait of Luxemburg, revealing her private struggles as well as her ascent to political prominence. Hitherto known only as an influential revolutionary and Marxist theorist, Rosa Luxemburg emerges in this biography as an enlightened intellectual and a conflicted, dramatic figure whose Jewish ancestry and physical handicap played a considerable role in her personal life and in her work. Refusing to choose between professional commitments and her ardent, sometimes tragic, romantic involvements, Luxemburg rejected the suffocating limitations imposed upon women. She insisted that a woman could have both love and work. Ettinger draws upon numerous interviews with Luxemburg's relatives and acquaintances, upon unpublished letters and personal memoirs. Based on her extensive research into Polish ~ Jewish history and culture, Ettinger demonstrates for the first time how Luxemburg's life in Poland shaped her future. Luxemburg's emergence as a powerful revolutionary thinker, her volatile love affairs, her painful conflicts unfold amid the turbulent decades of rising international socialism, of the First World War, and of the Russian Revolution. Repeatedly imprisoned by the governments of Germany and Russia, Luxemburg fought her political battles, often alone. Alternately praised and reviled by prominent socialists, she stubbornly opposed rigid dogma, a stance that led to her polemics against Lenin, whom she both admired and criticized. Emphasizing the morality and ethics of socialism, insistently disavowing bloodshed and violence, she maintained a vision of a humane, progressive social order that both the left and the right found threatening. This biography captures the courage and brilliance, the doubts and torments of a woman who challenged every rule and convention of her time. Never abandoning her fierce determination to live life "to its fullest", Luxemburg appears as a complex figure ~ passionate, romantic, uncompromising, and full of contradictions., Books<