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Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Centuryhttp://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/28813-execution-of-paris-communards-foreshadowed-mass-murders-of-20th-centuryPublisher: truthout Date Written: 01/02/2015 Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Cx Number: CX17293 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 the uprising that Karl Marx hailed as the first working-class revolution. Subject Headings |