{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/21bf945c-fa4d-4d07-9e14-c789f171127e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Luxemburg on Revolution","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7cdc.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Rosa Luxemburg wrote ‘The Russian Revolution’ (1918) from a jail cell in Germany.&nbsp;In it she described how the Bolshevik revolution was going to change the world but also explained how and why it was already going badly wrong.&nbsp;David explores the origins of Luxemburg’s insights, from her experiences in Poland to her love/hate relationship with Lenin.&nbsp;Plus he tells the story of her terrible end.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/index.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free version to download</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Reform-or-Revolution-and-Other-Writings-by-Rosa-Luxemburg/9780486447766\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Recommended version to buy</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Going Deeper</strong>:</p><p><br></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Lenin, ‘What Is to be Done?’ (1902)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1966/10/06/a-heroine-of-revolution/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Arendt, ‘A Heroine of Revolution,’&nbsp;<em>The New York Review of Books</em>&nbsp;(1966)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.versobooks.com/books/2036-red-rosa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Evans,&nbsp;<em>Red Rosa</em>&nbsp;(2015)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08lfc77\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Audio): In Our Time, 'Rosa Luxemburg' (2017)</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}