Rosa Luxemburg in Action: For Revolution and Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781138066380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 166 str.

Rosemary H. T. O'Kane

Opis

A welcomed and timely collection presenting an important examination of the political and social context in which Luxemburg developed her activities and views and a complete understanding of the history of social democracy, the revolutionary times of a century ago and the relevance of their events and ideas for more recent revolutions for democracy in the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

Selected Contents: 1. Setting The Stage: Electoral Democracy, Imperial Germany and the SPD 2. Preparing The Actor: For International Socialism 3. The Revolutionary Movement: Vote-getting, Party Organization and the General Strike 4. Revolution In Russia, 1905-6: The Living Political School 5. Elections, Imperialism And War: Objective Investigation 6. War, Revolutions And Freedom: From Behind Prison Walls 7. Into The German Revolution: On Through the Weimar Republic 8. After The Russian Revolution: Through Past 1945 9. With The Eagles Flying Onward: To Socialist Democracy

O autorze

Rosemary H.T. O'Kane is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Political Theory at Keele University.　 Her book The Revolutionary Reign of Terror: The Role of Violence in Political Change (1991) won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 1993.