History of the Paris Commune of 1871 - Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

The Paris Commune was a pivotal event in the history of socialist thought.

It had such a profound effect on Karl Marx that he amended a portion of his "Communist Manifesto" in response to it. "History of the Paris Commune" is an eyewitness account of the Commune, written in its immediate aftermath by a French worker who participated in the events he describes.

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