t in Russia. She continued her political activities even after graduation. She joined an illegal socialist group committed to the program of the defunct organization called Proletariat, but she soon became known to the police (Waters 2).
             In the beginning of 1889, 18-year-old Luxemburg was forced to flee Poland and move to Zurich, Switzerland, to escape imprisonment (MIA). She was smuggled across the border under a pile of straw in a peasant's cart. She was helped by a Catholic priest who she had convinced that she wanted to be baptized in order to marry her lover, but could not do it in Poland because of her parents (Waters 2).
             While in Zurich she was mostly involved in Polish politics. In 1892 she became one of the founding members of the Polish Socialist Party, the first attempt to unite all the various currents of Polish nationalism. In 1894 she a small group broke away from the Polish Socialist Party and started the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland, which later became the Social Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania (Waters 3).
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