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The Terrible Year - The Paris Commune 1871 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Terrible Year - The Paris Commune 1871 (Paperback, New ed)
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Victor Hugo called it l'Annee Terrible. 1871 was the year that saw
France comprehensively defeated by the Prussians. It was also the
year in which the Paris Commune ruled for seventy days - a rule
that ended in the slaughter of twenty thousand Frenchmen by their
fellow countrymen. It is an indelible blot in the history of
France, worse even than the atrocities of the Revolution nearly a
century earlier. The Commune and its Communards have become
watchwords for Left-wing revolutionaries the world over and its
theories influenced no-lesser figures than Marx, Lenin, and
Chairman Mao. What the Commune achieved was a Republic strengthened
against the restoration of monarchy, but from it grew the roots of
the 1930s Front Populaire which divided France leaving it easy prey
to a renewed German menace. Horne's style is incisive, his theories
persuasive and his writing perceptive. This is history for grown
ups. (Kirkus UK)
Beneath the glittering facade 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
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