Rosa Luxemburg (In Our Time)
1919 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), 'Red Rosa', who was born in Poland under the Russian Empire and became one of the leading revolutionaries in an age of revolution. She was jailed for agitation and for her campaign against the Great War which, she argued, pitted workers against each other for the sake of capitalism. Wit
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Around 1919
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)