Paris Commune

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The Paris Commune was a radical socialist and revolutionary government that briefly ruled Paris in 1871, emerging after France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and becoming a symbol of working-class uprising and communal self-governance.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical event
radical socialist government
revolutionary government
working-class uprising
analyzedIn The Civil War in France
capital Paris
casualties thousands of Communards killed
cause defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War
resentment against the French government in Versailles
social inequality in Paris
commemoratedBy Mur des Fédérés
commemoratedIn socialist and communist traditions
country France
describedBy Karl Marx
emergedAfter Franco-Prussian War
Siege of Paris
endCause military suppression by Versailles troops
endDate 1871-05-28
establishedBy insurrection of 18 March 1871
executiveBody Commune Council
followedBy French Third Republic consolidation
governmentType communal council
directly elected council
ideology communism
republicanism
revolutionary socialism
secularism
socialism
inspired Russian Revolution of 1917
council communist movements
later socialist movements
language French
leader Charles Delescluze NERFINISHED
Gustave Courbet
Jules Vallès
Louis Auguste Blanqui
Louis Charles Delescluze NERFINISHED
Louise Michel
Raoul Rigault
Élisée Reclus
legislativeBody Commune Council
locatedIn France
Paris
Île-de-France
notableEvent Bloody Week
Semaine sanglante
opposedBy Adolphe Thiers
French Third Republic government
Versailles government
partOf French revolutionary tradition
policy abolition of night work in bakeries
election of officials subject to recall
free secular education
maximum salary for officials
remission of rents
separation of church and state
workers’ control of workplaces abandoned by owners
precededBy Second French Empire
repression deportations to New Caledonia
mass executions
startDate 1871-03-18
symbolOf communal self-government
proletarian revolution
working-class self-governance
timePeriod 1870s
19th century

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