Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Century
Karlin, Mark; Merriman, John http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/28813-execution-of-paris-communards-foreshadowed-mass-murders-of-20th-century
Publisher: Truthout
Date Written: 01/02/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
The short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 lasted only a little more than two months before being ruthlessly crushed. A new book by Yale Professor John Merriman, "Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune," provides a remarkably detailed account of an armed uprising that rejected oligarchical government.
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