Author: JELLINEK, FRANK.
Title: The Paris Commune of 1871.
Description: London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971. 0575006420. A centenary reissue, with a new Introduction by the author, of the first adequate English history of the "forerunner to the Russian Revolution". Originally published in 1937. "What the Communards achieved in their brief ten weeks was truly revolutionary, and was dictated not only by circumstances but by half a century of discussion and revolt. Almost everything the Commune did implied a shift in property relationships, the transfer of control from one class to another..Half of Paris burned, and nearly twice as many people perished in one week as died in the whole of France during the three years of the French Revolution's Terror". Pp.453, 2 maps, owner's name to front free endpaper. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped and in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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