The War Against Paris 1871
Robert Tombs
At the time of the centenary, in 1971, a great deal of scholarship recalled and analysed the Paris Commune, the rebellion of France's capital city against the national government that occurred in the aftermath of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. Inevitably the focus of this writing was on what happened inside Paris and the significance of the Commune for the history of revolution and the future development of socialism.
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