The War Against Paris 1871

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521287847

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The War Against Paris, 1871 by Robert Tombs Pdf

The Paris Commune of 1871 is one of the great romantic failures in revolutionary history. Yet very little is known about its enemies, and especially the army, which first fraternized with the revolutionaries and then, two months later, crushed them with the utmost violence. This book, based on extensive archival research, is the first serious study of the role of the army in the civil war. It examines its composition and organization, its weaknesses and their effect on government policy, the steps taken to improve morale and discipline, the state of mind of officers and men and, finally, the conduct of the army in battle and the causes of the final bloodshed, in which about 20,000 Parisians were killed in the fighting or executed afterwards. Its purpose is to cast new light on the policy of the government and the problems of using an army in a civil war, and to tell for the first time the full tragedy of the suppression of the Comune, one of the bloodiest and least understood social conflicts in the history of modern Europe.

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317883852

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The Paris Commune 1871 by Robert Tombs Pdf

The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took a terrible revenge: thousands died in the bloodbath that followed. The short-lived Commune and its repression cast a long shadow. It exposed deep divisions in French society and became a potent inspiration for the radical left. This stirring new study written with great zest, and a vivid sense of time and place lets the reader experience these tumultuous events at first hand and provides a comprehensive synthesis of recent research in both French and English.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547022572

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The Civil War in France by Karl Marx Pdf

The Civil War in France is a pamphlet written by Karl Marx. It presents a convincing declaration of the General Council of the International, pertaining to the character and importance of the struggle of the Communards in the Paris Commune at the time.

Author : John Merriman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465056828

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Massacre by John Merriman Pdf

The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century—before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just society. They expelled loyalists and soldiers and erected barricades in the streets. In Massacre, John Merriman introduces a cast of inimitable Communards—from les pétroleuses (female incendiaries) to the painter Gustave Courbet—whose idealism fueled a revolution. And he vividly recreates the Commune’s chaotic and bloody end when 30,000 troops stormed the city, burning half of Paris and executing captured Communards en masse. A stirring evocation of the spring when Paris was ablaze with cannon fire and its citizens were their own masters, Massacre reveals how the indomitable spirit of the Commune shook the very foundations of Europe.

Author : N S Nash
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526790309

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The Siege that Changed the World by N S Nash Pdf

A fascinating account of the dramatic events leading up to the Siege and the four month siege itself. The Siege of Paris from September 1870 to the city’s capitulation in January 1871 was the result of Louis Napoleon III, Emperor of France’s disastrous decision to declare war on Prussia. The Prussian Army of King William I proved vastly superior to their adversaries. After victories at Metz and Sedan, the Prussians marched on Paris virtually unopposed. By 19 September the city was encircled with the population discontented, disillusioned and rebellious. Civil disorder was rife as starvation took a grip. On the inevitable surrender in late January and the declaration of the German Empire, France’s humiliation was complete. This in turn led to the temporary establishment of the Paris Commune an embryonic communist government, and civil war. As well as providing a vivid description of the siege and fighting, the author of this well researched account analyses the long-term effects be they social, military and political both on France and wider Europe. He argues that while the siege was not particularly costly in terms of human life, its legacy was the reduction of French global influence, the growth of German militarism, the evolution of international communism and changes in the world order.

Author : Mark Lause
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788730570

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Soldiers of Revolution by Mark Lause Pdf

How war gave birth to revolution in the 19th century The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 introduced new military technologies, transformed the organization of armies, and upset the continental balance of power, promulgating new regimented ideas of nationhood and conflict resolution more widely. However, the mass armies that became a new standard required mass mobilization and the arming of working people, who exercised a new power through both a German social democracy and popular insurgent French movements. As in the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Paris Commune of 1871 grew directly from the discontent among radicalized soldiers and civilians pressed into armed service on behalf of institutions they learned to mistrust. If this militarized class conflict, the brutality of the Commune's subsequent repression not only butchered the tens of thousands of Parisians but slaughtered an old utopian faith that appeals to reason and morality could resolve social tensions. War among nations became linked to revolution and revolution to armed struggle.

Author : Alistair Horne
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447233558

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The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne Pdf

Opening with the military preparations before Paris was besieged by the invading German army in September 1870, Alistair Horne's compelling account of this dramatic episode takes the reader through the fall of Paris and German victory to the last days of the Paris Commune in May Week 1871.

Author : Carolyn J. Eichner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0253111102

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Surmounting the Barricades by Carolyn J. Eichner Pdf

This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the period from the early 1860s through that century's end, Carolyn J. Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, and religious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emerged as a plurality of feminist socialisms within the revolution, and how these varied politics subsequently affected fin-de-sià ̈cle gender and class relations. She focuses on three distinctly dissimilar revolutionary women leaders who exemplify multiple competing and complementary feminist socialisms: Andre Leo, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and Paule Mink. Leo theorized and educated through journalism and fiction, Dmitrieff organized institutional power for working-class women, and Mink agitated crowds to create an egalitarian socialist world. Each woman forged her own path to gender equality and social justice.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Civil War in France by Karl Marx Pdf

Written as a series of addresses to the General Council of the International Workingmen’s Association from July 1870 to May 1871, The Civil War in France covers the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War, the fall of the Second French Empire, and the heroic episode of the Paris Commune: the first workers’ government in history. For two months between March and May 1871 the armed workers of Paris, surrounded by enemies on all sides, took their destiny into their own hands and demonstrated that it is possible for the workers to run society democratically, without capitalists, bankers or even a standing army. In his brilliantly concise and penetrating addresses, written in the heat of the events themselves, Marx succeeds in distilling the experience of the Commune down to its most fundamental elements, drawing out in the process a programme for the revolutionaries of the future. 150 years on, this book remains a priceless resource for the workers of the world. Wellred edition featuring a new introduction providing the historical background to the Paris Commune, as well as Engels' 1891 introduction and articles by Lenin and Trotsky.

Author : Carolyn J. Eichner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978827707

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The Paris Commune by Carolyn J. Eichner Pdf

At dawn on March 18, 1871, Parisian women stepped between cannons and French soldiers, using their bodies to block the army from taking the artillery from their working-class neighborhood. When ordered to fire, the troops refused and instead turned and arrested their leaders. Thus began the Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war that rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. Considered a golden moment of hope and potential by the left, and a black hour of terrifying power inversions by the right, the Commune occupies a critical position in understanding modern history and politics. A 72-day conflict that ended with the ferocious slaughter of Parisians, the Commune represents for some the final insurgent burst of the French Revolution’s long wake, for others the first “successful” socialist uprising, and for yet others an archetype for egalitarian socio-economic, feminist, and political change. Militants have referenced and incorporated its ideas into insurrections across the globe, throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries, keeping alive the revolution’s now-iconic goals and images. Innumerable scholars in countless languages have examined aspects of the 1871 uprising, taking perspectives ranging from glorifying to damning this world-shaking event. The Commune stands as a critical and pivotal moment in nineteenth-century history, as the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures, and as the crucible allowing glimpses of alternate possibilities. Upending hierarchies of class, religion, and gender, the Commune emerged as a touchstone for the subsequent century-and-a-half of revolutionary and radical social movements.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Civil war
ISBN : 1461911419

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The Civil War in France by Karl Marx Pdf

Marx's history of the Paris commune and the aftermath of the 1871 Franco-Prussian war.

Author : William Pembroke Fetridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : UOMDLP:abl8477:0001.001

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The Rise and Fall of the Paris Commune in 1871 by William Pembroke Fetridge Pdf

Author : John Milner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300084078

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Art, War and Revolution in France, 1870-1871 by John Milner Pdf

En beskrivelse af franske kunstneres opfattelse af Frankrigs krig mod Preussen, Pariserkommunen og den nye franske republik, som det kommer til udtryk i deres kunst

Author : Alistair Horne
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : France
ISBN : 1842127594

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The Terrible Year by Alistair Horne Pdf

A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history. Beneath the glittering façade of Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire there were forces of seething social and political unrest. When France succumbed to the Prussian invaders these forces came to the surface and the Commune took over. It ruled for only a brief seventy days before it died in a holocaust of fire and bloodshed that was far worse than anything perpetrated during France's Great Revolution of 1789, but it left behind an indelible mark which spread far beyond the boundaries of France. 'A brilliant writer' New York Times Book Review

Author : Frank Jellinek
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447486626

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The Paris Commune of 1871 by Frank Jellinek Pdf

Originally published in the 1930s this is a fascinating examination, using documents and eye-witness accounts, of the famous Paris Commune. Contents include: The End of An Empire; The Government of National Defence; The National Assembly; The Eighteenth of March; The Government of Monsieur Assi; The Commune War; Cluseret Rossel Delescluze; Last Days of the Commune; The Battle of Paris; The End The Restoration of Order; The Commune At Work. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.