The history of the paris commune of 1871 by march, thomas. The francoprussian war had led to the capture of emperor napoleon iii in september 1870, the collapse of the second french empire, and the beginning of the third republic. The central committee forces the mayors to capitulate. Wilson manchester university press manchester and new york distributed exclusively in the usa by palgrave. The paris commune was a democratic socialist government that ruled paris for two months in the spring of 1871 following an uprising of workers. The wikipedia article is also good for a quick overview. The national assembly, which was elected in february 1871 to. Paris and the commune 187178 the politics of forgetting colette e. It occurred in the wake of frances defeat in the francogerman war and the collapse of napoleon iiis second empire 185270. Buy history of the paris commune of 1871 by lissagaray, prosper olivier, marx, eleanor isbn. April 23, 2014 professor merriman specializes in modern france, urban and social history, and modern european history since the renaissance.
The two manifestoes on the franceprussian war and the essay on the civil war in france, which form the bulk of this volume, were originally issued in 1870 and. It had such a profound effect on karl marx that he amended a portion of his communist manifesto in response to it. Commune of paris, 1871, insurrection of paris against the french government from march 18 to may 28, 1871. If youve read about it already in a history survey but want to know more, without committing to a 500 page tomb, this is a good middle ground freely available. On march 18 1871, after france was defeated by prussia in the francoprussian war, the french government sent troops into paris to try and take back the parisian national guards cannon before the people got hold of it.
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