The spirit of an event consecrated in anarchist legend is captured in these documents. The seventy-three-day Paris Commune of 1871, the largest urban insurrection in modern history, was a prelude to the revolutions of this century.

... the communards believed it to be a weak , sham , corrupt affair of the bour- geoisie . The communards declared that the Republic had sold Paris to the Germans . They therefore rose and declared the Commune . Similar risings , instigated ...

... the Communards , Civilizing the Savages The condemnation of some forty - five hundred Communards to exile in New Caledonia figured prominently in the plan of the Versaillais for a moral regeneration of France . The irony in this bit of ...

... the Communards . Despite their highly effective social engagement of children , the Communards never received formal acknowledgment and support . They were tolerated at best and persecuted at worst . An unknown number of Communards ...

Communards: The Story of the Paris Commune of 1871, As Told by those Who Fought for It. Texts selected, edited, and translated by Mitchell Abidor. Published by Marxists Internet Archive Publications, 2010.

The story of an unexpected hero The Last Communard offers a brilliant, striking portrait of revolutionary Europe through a remarkable personal story.

... the Communards belief in certain fundamental elements of " civilized " France : fam- ily , religion , work , property , and the state . The moralizing agenda of the penal colony aimed to reform the Communards ' characters , to turn ...

... communards went about their task and their deep belief in communist ideas suggested that revolutionary principles could still animate Soviet youth . At heart , the Communards wanted to bring together these communist ideas and connect ...

Various. The main event in the Communards ' life was the Communards ' assembly , the main ritual of which was the so - called ' eaglet circle ' . At the beginning of the 1970s , the centre of the Communards ' movement had become the ...