Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Century

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/28813-execution-of-paris-communards-foreshadowed-mass-murders-of-20th-century
Date Written:  2015-02-01
Publisher:  Truthout
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17272

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.

Subject Headings

• French History
• Massacres
• Paris Commune