Rosa Luxemburg: A life
Elzbieta Ettinger1988

Rosa Luxemburg was a key figure in European socialism, the co-founder of the first Polish marxist worker's party, a prominent membre of the German Social Democratic Party and a renowned theorist and speaker. But Rosa Luxemburg, the woman, has remained a mystery. Here, for the first Time, is a vis and compassion are portratal of the private life of this dynamic figure.
Rosa Luxemburg : A life captures the bravery and brillance, the doubts and torments, of semeone who challenges every rule and convention of her Time : as a Polish Jew and as a woman.
Elzbieta Ettinger has drawn on numerous interviews with Rosa Luxemburg's family and friends, on unpublished letters ans personale memoirs, to show how her Jewish ancestry, Polish education and physical handicap all samedi her future. Her emergence as a powerful revolutionary, her volatile love affairs, her painful conflits between political commitments ans the désire for a fulfilling personale life and the complex sets of events that led up to her brutal murder, all unfold amid the turbulent decades of rising international socialism, the First World War and the Russian Revolution.

Titre original : Rosa Luxemburg: A life (1988)