Richard Abraham

'Undergraduates will now be well advised to start their secondary reading on Luxemburg with Abraham's crisp survey not just of her life and ideas, but also of her fate at the hands of a variety of previous commentators.'History

• Part 1 Contexts: the murders - "Bloody Rosa" and the Right; the unquenchable flame - "Luxemburgism" and the Left; a non-Jewish Jew - from Zamosc to Zurich. part 2 A Polish apprenticeship: the comrades; the enemies; journalism - "Sprawa Robotnicza"; the conquest of Berlin. Part 3 The eagle soars: "nothing to do with the Womens's Movement"; Bernstein's "English spectacles"; French corruption and Belgian chivalry; "Jeszcze Polska". Part 4 The last two men: the happiest months of her life; Kostja, Lulu, Mimi and school; Kautsky's nervous breakdown; from Mendelson to Sobelsohn; "long live struggle!". Part 5 Spartacus: towards the Third International; Rosa's contemporary; the Russian Revolution; "I dared to do it".

Richard Abraham

'Undergraduates will now be well advised to start their secondary reading on Luxemburg with Abraham's crisp survey not just of her life and ideas, but also of her fate at the hands of a variety of previous commentators.'History

• Part 1 Contexts: the murders - "Bloody Rosa" and the Right; the unquenchable flame - "Luxemburgism" and the Left; a non-Jewish Jew - from Zamosc to Zurich. part 2 A Polish apprenticeship: the comrades; the enemies; journalism - "Sprawa Robotnicza"; the conquest of Berlin. Part 3 The eagle soars: "nothing to do with the Womens's Movement"; Bernstein's "English spectacles"; French corruption and Belgian chivalry; "Jeszcze Polska". Part 4 The last two men: the happiest months of her life; Kostja, Lulu, Mimi and school; Kautsky's nervous breakdown; from Mendelson to Sobelsohn; "long live struggle!". Part 5 Spartacus: towards the Third International; Rosa's contemporary; the Russian Revolution; "I dared to do it".

Richard Abraham

'Undergraduates will now be well advised to start their secondary reading on Luxemburg with Abraham's crisp survey not just of her life and ideas, but also of her fate at the hands of a variety of previous commentators.'History

• Part 1 Contexts: the murders - "Bloody Rosa" and the Right; the unquenchable flame - "Luxemburgism" and the Left; a non-Jewish Jew - from Zamosc to Zurich. part 2 A Polish apprenticeship: the comrades; the enemies; journalism - "Sprawa Robotnicza"; the conquest of Berlin. Part 3 The eagle soars: "nothing to do with the Womens's Movement"; Bernstein's "English spectacles"; French corruption and Belgian chivalry; "Jeszcze Polska". Part 4 The last two men: the happiest months of her life; Kostja, Lulu, Mimi and school; Kautsky's nervous breakdown; from Mendelson to Sobelsohn; "long live struggle!". Part 5 Spartacus: towards the Third International; Rosa's contemporary; the Russian Revolution; "I dared to do it".