Revolutionary Thought After the Paris Commune, 1871-1885 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108499262)

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.

Author: Julia Nicholls
ISBN-10: 1108499260
ISBN-13: 9781108499262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2019
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 6.40h x 9.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2020