| The Russian Revolution | |
| Author: | Rosa Luxemburg |
| Language: | German |
| Country: | German Empire |
| Genre: | Political philosophy |
| Publisher: | Paul Levi |
| Title Orig: | Die Russische Revolution |
| Translator: | Bertram Wolfe (English edition published 1940 by Workers Age Publishers, New York) |
| Release Date: | 1922 |
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The Russian Revolution (de|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]
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: