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A Rosa Luxemburg Bookshelf

Books on and by the great revolutionary and theorist.

Verso Books15 January 2026

A Rosa Luxemburg Bookshelf

Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement and the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was murdered, alongside Karl Liebknecht, on January 15th, 1919.

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  • Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg

    by J.P. Nettl

    This biography, first published half a century ago, remains the most detailed and comprehensive study of Rosa Luxemburg. Nettl’s extensive knowledge of the social and political context of the Europ...
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  • Red Rosa

    Red Rosa

    by Kate Evans

    Afterword by Paul Buhle

    Edited by Paul Buhle

    A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a wo...
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  • The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg

    The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg

    by Rosa Luxemburg

    Edited by Georg Adler, Peter Hudis and Annelies Laschitza

    Translated by George Shriver

    The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socia...
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  • The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I

    The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I

    by Rosa Luxemburg

    Edited by Peter Hudis

    Translated by David Fernbach, Joseph Fracchia and George Shriver

    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg’s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, ...
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  • The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II

    The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II

    by Rosa Luxemburg

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Peter Hudis

    Translated by Nicholas Gray and George Shriver

    The second volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic The...
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  • The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume V

    The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume V

    by Rosa Luxemburg

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Helen C. Scott

    Translated by Jacob Blumenfeld, Mathias Foit, Nicholas Gray, Henry Holland, Zachary King and Manuela Kölke

    This volume is the first to contain all of Rosa Luxemburg’s eloquent writings on the 1917 Russian and 1918–19 German revolutions. Also contained here are articles, essays, and manuscripts on the Eu...
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