The Russian Revolution (pamphlet)
 Cover of Rosa Luxemburg's pamphlet "The Russian Revolution" (Die Russische Revolution) | |
| Author | Rosa Luxemburg |
|---|---|
| Original title | Die Russische Revolution |
| Translator | Bertram Wolfe (English edition published 1940 by Workers Age Publishers, New York) |
| Language | German |
| Genre | Political philosophy |
| Publisher | Paul Levi |
Publication date | 1922 |
| Publication place | German Empire |
| Media type | |
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]
Summary
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]
Sections of the work include:
- Fundamental Significance of the Russian Revolution
- The Bolshevik Land Policy
- The Nationalities Question
- The Constituent Assembly
- The Question of Suffrage
- The Problem of Dictatorship
- The Struggle Against Corruption
- Democracy and Dictatorship
References
- ^ Rosa Luxemburg (1940). "The Russian Revolution". Workers Age Publishers (New York).
- ^ Katerina Clark (2018). "Rosa Luxemburg, "The Russian Revolution"" (PDF). Springer Nature B.V.
- ^ Ottokar Luban (September 12, 2012). "Rosa Luxemburg's Critique of Lenin's Ultra Centralistic Party Concept and of the Bolshevik Revolution". Critique. 40 (3). Journal of Socialist Theory: 357–365. doi:10.1080/00111619.2012.697760. S2CID 144441489.
- ^ PIETER C. VAN DUIN (January 2018). "Political life is dying out: Rosa Luxemburg's critique of Bolshevism and the Bolshevik revolution" (PDF). Studia Politica Slovaca.