Rosa Luxemburg, 1871 im russischen Teil Polens geboren, gehörte vielen Minderheiten an. Sie kam aus einem jüdischen Elternhaus, perfektionierte erst während ihres Studiums in Zürich die deutsche Sprache, fand mithilfe einer Scheinehe in Deutschland ihre politische Heimat, war auf...

As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era...

"Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich and Robert Havemann were probably the best-known critics of the DDR's ruling Socialist Unity Party. Yet they saw themselves as Marxists, and their demands extended far beyond a democratisation of real socialism. When environmental issues became more important in...