There were waves of revolution across Europe in 1830 and 1848 before the
Paris Commune in 1871.
example is his description of the
Paris Commune as a moment of
The
Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism.
The bulk of The Communist Hypothesis is devoted to a reading of the
Paris Commune, the Cultural Revolution in China, and May '68.
Finally, there were political crises: the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-1871 and the subsequent
Paris Commune. Although politics did not much permeate Impressionist art, the effects of industrialization on the urban and rural landscape did.
Irving and Cahill, however, zero in on two particular stained glass windows, discerning in images commissioned for the Centenary of New South Wales the democratic sensibilities of Lucien Henry, a refugee from the
Paris Commune. Henry's residence still stands in Victoria Street, Kings Cross--and once you know a Communard once lived in the building, you'll never look at the Travellers' Rest backpackers hostel in quite the same fashion.
The voices that were raised in the Egyptian People's Council calling on the security bodies to open fire on the protestors on April 6 and the activities that followed can be linked to the positions and actions of the French politician Adolphe Thiers during the
Paris Commune in 1871.
Kuper might almost have been the Courbet of the modern
Paris Commune, but this uprising is crushed with great violence and dozens of casualties, including American journalist Brad Will.
We conjure it up in the
Paris Commune (a seminal influence for Debord); hear it in Johnny Rotten's "NO FUTURE NO FUTURE" and Pere Ubu's "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"; see it in the riots of Watts; follow it in Bernadette Corporation's detournement of Michelle Bernstein's novel, All the King's Horses, written at the same time as these letters (Bernstein was Debord's first wife).
1871 The
Paris Commune, a new form of government, briefly took control of France.
He was particularly drawn to the Mur des Federes, the plot devoted to the memory of the last defenders of the 1871
Paris Commune who had been gunned down in their thousands on that very site by the Versaillais.
Courbet joined the
Paris Commune of 1871 and--following the collapse of the revolutionary government--was accused of complicity in the destruction of the Vendome column, ordered to pay a huge line for its reconstruction, and imprisoned.
