Rosa Luxemburg was born in Poland in 1871. Living in Germany prior to World War I and being a member of the German Democratic Socialist Party she refused to support the war and was put in prison from 1914 to November 1918. In January 1919 she was murdered by reactionary German troops. In "Reform or Revolution" she sparked the debate as an activist and intellectual in European socialist circles. "The Mass Strike" is a classic work as she looked at the mass strike which came to a boiing point in the Russian Revolution of 1905.A Collector's Edition.