Istoriia Parizhskoi Kommuny 1871 goda [History of the Paris Commune of 1871]

1974 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 791
Author(s):  
Robert F. Byrnes ◽  
E. A. Zhelubovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Paris Commune ◽  
History Of ◽  
Commune Of 1871

scholarly journals THE PARIS COMMUNE IN LONDON AND THE SPATIAL HISTORY OF IDEAS, 1871–1900

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1021-1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA C. FORSTER
Keyword(s):  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spatial Configurations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Commune Of 1871 ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTFollowing the Paris Commune of 1871, around 3,500 Communard refugees and their families arrived in Britain, with the majority settling in the capital. This article is an exploration of these exiled Communards within the geography of London. The spatial configurations of London's radical and exile communities, and the ways in which Communards interacted with those they crossed paths with, is vital in understanding how some of the ideas that came out of the Commune permeated London's radical scene. Too often British political movements, particularly British socialism, have been presented as being wilfully impervious to developments on the continent. Instead, this article argues that in order to find these often more affective and ancillary foreign influences, it is important to think spatially and trace how the exile map of London corresponded with, extended, and redrew parts of the existing radical mapping of the city. In carving out spaces for intellectual exchange, Communard refugees moved within and across various communities and physical places. The social and spatial context in which British sympathizers absorbed and appropriated ideas from the Commune is key to understanding how the exiles of the Paris Commune left their mark on the landscape, and mindscape, of London.

The First Workers’ Government in History: Karl Marx’s Addenda to Lissagaray’s History of the Commune of 1871

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-64
Author(s):  
Daniel Gaido
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
German Version ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Commune Of 1871 ◽  
The City

Abstract In Marxist circles it is common to refer to Karl Marx’s The Civil War in France for a theoretical analysis of the historical significance of the Paris Commune, and to Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray’s History of the Commune of 1871 for a description of the facts surrounding the insurrection of the Paris workers and its repression by the National Assembly led by Adolphe Thiers. What is less well-known is that Marx himself oversaw the German translation of Lissagaray’s book and made numerous additions to it. In this article we describe Marx’s addenda to Lissagaray’s work, showing how they contribute to concretising his analysis of the Paris Commune and how they relate to the split in the International Working Men’s Association between Marxists and anarchists that took place after the Commune’s defeat. We also show how Marx’s additions to the German version of Lissagaray’s book were linked to his involvement with the recently created Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany and to his criticism of the programme it had adopted at the congress celebrated in the city of Gotha.

Cinema, Anarchism, and Revolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-109
Author(s):  
Richard Porton
Keyword(s):  
Historical Period ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Old Left ◽  
Object Lessons ◽  
May 1968 ◽  
Commune Of 1871 ◽  
New Babylon

This chapter examines cinema's representation of anarchist heroes, martyrs, and fleeting revolutionary moments, formulating a critique of mainstream socialism that is far from the banalities of bourgeois sociology. Two films, Bo Widerberg's Joe Hill (1971) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco and Vanzetti (1971), deal with a transitional historical period before the final polarization of Bolshevism and anarchism. These films are reverential tributes to radical martyrs, and reflect the fact that these members of the Old Left pantheon have long been heralded as all-purpose leftists whose legacies provide useful object-lessons for socialists, liberals, and communists, as well as anarchists. The chapter then looks at the documentary and fiction films inspired by the Spanish Revolution of the 1930s. It also considers a prototypical sequence in Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's Soviet avant-garde epic New Babylon (1929), which sums up the grassroots anti-authoritarianism of the seventy-two-day Paris Commune of 1871, while prefiguring the Spanish libertarian communism of the 1930s and the anti-statist radicalism that erupted during the events of May 1968 in France.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Colin Foss
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
French History ◽  
Personal Writing ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
The World ◽  
Commune Of 1871 ◽  
Bear Witness

While scholarly interest is often drawn to the more tumultuous Paris Commune of 1871, insistence on this moment of revolution and civil war obscures the specific stakes of the Siege of Paris, which was not as much a revolution as a moment of suspension in French history. Cut off from the rest of the world, Parisians were left to their own devices during the Siege. What resulted was a literary industry with few established authors present, limited resources, and enormous demand. Despite the circumstances, Parisians turned to literature to alleviate their isolation and bear witness to the unspeakable tragedy that surrounded them. The relative anonymity of Parisian literary production during the Siege has erroneously led to the conclusion that culture came to a standstill during this period. However, a closer look at literary institutions, which weathered the storm of national defeat remarkably well, shows that literature does not disappear in times of war: it simply changes form. The introduction defines the four major sites of cultural production and the networks that existed within and among them: theaters, newspapers, personal writing, and book publishing.

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