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This week we're up on the hill of Montmartre, as we put the focus on a little-known, yet defining chapter of French history: the Paris Commune. Walking aroun...
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One Day Under the Paris Commune, 1871 [Tappan Introduction] According to the terms of the 1871 Treaty of Versailles, which ended the Franco-Prussian War, France ceded to Germany some 4700 square miles of territory, and agreed to pay within three years five billion francs for indemnification.
May 1, 2021 · In 1871, Karl Marx proposed an account of the Paris Commune that is wholly inscribed in the question of the state. For him, it comprises the first historical case in which the proletariat assumes its transitory function of the direction, or administration, of the entire society. From the Commune’s initiatives and impasses, he is led to the ...
Mar 18, 2021 · The Paris Commune began an insurrection on March 18, 1871, when the largely left-wing, radical National Guard refused to accept the authority of the French government, killed two generals and took ...
Apr 28, 2021 · The Paris Commune lasted only seventy-two days – but it forged a legend. The roots of this legend lay in the “Bloody Week” that climaxed its brief existence. On May 21, 1871, troops from Versailles entered Paris. In the days that followed, Thiers’ army acted with an almost unimaginable brutality.
Mar 15, 2021 · The Paris Commune was one of the greatest episodes in the history of the French working class. Between the uprising of March 18 and the “Bloody Week” at the end of May, Paris was ruled by the democratic organs of the workers, who attempted to reorganize society on entirely new bases—without exploitation or oppression.
A division had been drawn between the people in Paris, and the newly formed government of the Third French Republic, based in Versailles. This new government urged the people of Paris to abstain from voting in the first elections of the Commune, held on March 26th- many of the candidates elected were members of the International, voting turnout was overwhelmingly from the working class of Paris.
