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The History of the Paris Commune of 1871 keyword-london-review-of-books In the second half ofIn 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, theheroic battles fought in its defence, and the bloody massacre that ended the uprising. Its author, Lissagaray, was a young journalist who not only saw the events recounted here first hand, but fought for the Commune on the barricades. He spent the next twenty