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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholls, Julia, 1987- author.

Series:

Ideas in context.

Ideas in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Socialism.

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

Revolutionaries.

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

France.

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

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

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force offers new interpretations of the French revolutionary tradition. Drawing together material from Europe, North America, and the South Pacific, Julia Nicholls pieces together the nature and content of French revolutionary thought in this often overlooked era. She shows that this was an important and creative period, in which activists drew upon fresh ideas they encountered in exile across the world to rebuild a revolutionary movement that was both united and politically viable in the changed circumstances of France's new Third Republic. The relative success of these efforts, moreover, has significant implications for the ways in which we understand the founding years of the Third Republic, the nature of the modern revolutionary tradition, and the origins of European Marxism.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-58623-6

1-108-60000-X

1-108-63419-2