LUXEMBURG, Rosa.

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[The Industrial Development of Poland, in Russian:] Promyshlennoe razvitie Pol'shi. First edition in Russian of Luxemburg's first economic paper, the doctoral thesis for which she was awarded a PhD in law and political economy from the University of Zurich in 1897, the first woman to be recognized so. It was first published in German in 1898 as Die Industrielle Entwicklung Polens. WorldCat locates just four copies of the Russian translation in institutions worldwide: three in the US (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; University of Kansas; Harvard) and one at the National Library of Israel."From her start in the Marxist movement, internationalism was Luxemburg's most distinctive revolutionary mark" (Dunayevskaya, p. 51). Smuggled out of her country of birth in 1889, Luxemburg emigrated to Switzerland as a political refugee and enrolled at Zurich. While completing her doctorate she and fellow Polish revolutionary Leo Jogiches broke with the Polish Socialist Party to found the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania. Her anti-nationalist stance, in which she argued against national self-determination for Poland, advocating first for a socialist revolution across multiple countries, placed her in direct opposition to the most prominent socialist figures of the time, as well as to Marx's own writings on Poland. Her thesis sought to prove the point that Poland's economic growth depended on the Russian market, arguing that separation would lead

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