They could not hold out, however, when more troops retook the city and massacred 30,000 workers in bloody revenge. The Paris Commune is often said to be the first example of working people taking ...

Ross begins, of course, with Karl Marx on the Paris Commune of 1871, that moment when the revolutionary Communards built an actually existing new social and political organization for a little ...

This was the week that the Paris Commune died. Books in Review The Paris Commune: A Brief History By Carolyn J. Eichner Buy this book The Commune was one of the most radical political experiments ...

[AP Photo/Thomas Padilla] In the famous cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris, there is located what is known as the Communards Wall. There, on May 28, 1871, 147 members of the Commune were ...

My discussion of the Paris Commune’s relevance, and of the relevance of Marx and Engels’s reflections on it, will revolve around three key points. First, the worldview through which Marx and ...

the Paris Commune, and the Commune’s brutal suppression. In the midst of it all, Smee gives us pulsating descriptions of the romance (almost surely unconsummated) between the painters Édouard ...

Today on the Academic Minute: Carolyn J. Eichner, professor of history and women’s and gender studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, examines how the Paris Communes can help us gain a ...

After a contested election, the Paris Commune was proclaimed, a breakaway government that Smee describes as both radical and prosaic. “Like an Impressionist painting seen too close, it never ...