biography
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| lived:
| (1871–1919)
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| biography:
| Revolutionary, born in Russian Poland. She became a German citizen in 1895, and emigrated to Zürich in 1889, where she studied law and political economy. With the German politician Karl Liebknecht she formed the Spartacus League, which later became the German Communist Party. She was arrested by right-wing irregular troops, the Freikorps, in Berlin, and brutally murdered during the Spartacus revolt of 1919. |
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