The Paris Commune

by Gluckstein, Donny

• ISBN13: 9781608461189
• ISBN10: 1608461181
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-26
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

This comprehensive history--based in primary source accounts--of worker's control in Paris considers historic and contemporary debates on the Commune's legacy

Author Biography

Donny Gluckstein is the author of The Nazis, Capitalism, and the Working Class (forthcoming reissue from Haymarket Books) and The Tragedy of Bukharin. He is the coauthor, with Tony Cliff, of Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Commune's Achievements	p. 1
The Revolution of March 18, 1871	p. 1
A New Power	p. 4
Running the Great City	p. 8
The Commune in Action	p. 13
A New Foundation for Social and Economic Relations	p. 16
The ôPetroleusesö: The Commune and Women's Liberation	p. 20
The Triumph of Reason	p. 25
The Commune's Internationalism	p. 29
The Commune's Legal System	p. 31
ôThe Inauguration of Luxuryö	p. 32
ôA Gigantic Liberation of the Wordö	p. 33
The Proclamation	p. 40
The Capital of the Human Race	p. 45
The Place	p. 45
The Power: Second Empire	p. 52
The People	p. 57
The Politics	p. 60
War and Siege	p. 77
From Republic to Commune	p. 77
The September 4 Revolution	p. 79
The Government of National Defense	p. 80
Contradictions of Wartime Politics	p. 82
The Siege	p. 84
The Idea of a Commune	p. 90
A New Type of Mass Power	p. 100
The National Assembly versus Paris	p. 105
Fighting the Civil War	p. 111
Beyond the Walls	p. 112
What Is to Be Done about Versailles? March 19-31	p. 116
The First Days of the Communal Council	p. 122
The Federals and Their Opponents	p. 126
The War Delegates	p. 131
The Home Front: Freedom versus Authority	p. 137
The Middle Class under the Commune	p. 139
The Hostage Decree	p. 140
The Commune and the Issue of ôTerrorö	p. 141
The Committee of Public Safety	p. 144
Bloody Week	p. 149
The Communard Resistance	p. 149
Unholy Alliance: The Commune's Enemies	p. 156
Defeat and Massacre	p. 158
Interpretations: Critics and Champions	p. 167
The Commune as Municipal or Community Politics	p. 168
Anarchism: The Commune as the Abolition of Politics	p. 170
The Feminist Critique	p. 171
ôTwilight or Dawnö?	p. 177
Champions: The Marxist Tradition and the Commune	p. 181
Notes	p. 193
Appendixes
Chronology	p. 221
Principal Figures	p. 225
ôThe Internationaleö	p. 233
Map of Paris, 1871	p. 236
Index	p. 238
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