Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871–1885

The first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after the 1871 Paris Commune, France's last nineteenth-century revolution.

Julia Nicholls (Author)

9781108713344, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 August 2020

330 pages
15 x 23 x 2.5 cm, 0.47 kg

'This is an important contribution to intellectual and modern French history collections.' G. P. Cox, Choice

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.

Introduction
Part I. The Paris Commune and Accounting for Failure: 1. The commune as Quotidian event
2. The commune as violent trauma
Part II. Revolution and the Republic: 3. The French revolutionary tradition
4. Rehabilitating revolution
Part III. Marx, Marxism, and International Socialism: 5. Texts in translation
6. The origins of Marxism in modern France
Part IV. Empire and Internationalism: 7. Deportation, imperialism, and the Republican State
8. Exile and universal solidarity
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ], History of ideas [JFCX], British & Irish history [HBJD1], European history [HBJD]