Revolutionary thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885 / Julia Nicholls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholls, Julia, 1987- author.

Series:

Ideas in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutionaries.

History.

France--Politics and government--1870-1940.

France.

Politics and government.

France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940.

Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871.

Paris (France).

Socialism--France--History--19th century.

Socialism.

Revolutionaries--France--History--19th century.

France--Paris.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 309 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885 provides the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years after the defeat of the 1871 Paris Commune, France's last nineteenth-century revolution. Scholars have traditionally dismissed this period as of little importance: an era of stagnation, defeatism, and disarray. This book pieces together the nature and content of French revolutionary thought from the crushing of the Commune in 1871 to the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force in the mid-1880s. It historicises revolutionary thought from domestic and international perspectives, and places it in the context of broader revolutionary discourses. In doing so, I show that -- contrary to prevailing assumptions -- this was a creative period, in which activists drew upon fresh ideas encountered in exile during the 1870s to rebuild a united and politically viable revolutionary movement upon their return to France in 1880. I further suggest that the relative success of these efforts has significant implications for the ways in which we understand both the founding years of the Third Republic and the nature of the modern revolutionary tradition"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The commune as quotidian event

The commune as violent trauma

The French revolutionary tradition

Rehabilitating revolution

Texts in translation

The origins of Marxism in modern France

Deportation, imperialism, and the republican state

Exile and universal solidarity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108499262

1108499260

9781108713344

1108713343

OCLC:

1090279725