The Paris Commune

Preface

I. Introduction

II. Prologue

III. The 18th of March

IV. The Central Committee and the Reaction

V. The Election of the Commune

VI. The War Begins with Disaster for the Commune

VII. Concerning Various Matters

VIII. Internal Administration and Policy of the Commune

IX. The Freemasons, the Committee of Public Safety, and Rossel

X. The Last Days of Paris

XI. The Entry of the Versaillese

XII. The Barricades

XIII. The “Commune or Death”

XIV. The Commune is Dead!

XV. The Civilised World and Its “Thrill of Horror”

XVI. The Hostages

XVII. The Lessons of the Commune

Note

1. This was originally published in a series of 17 articles entitled The Paris Commune in Justice, the journal of the Social Democratic Federation during 1894 on the following dates, 1st, 27th January; 2nd, 24th February; 3rd, 3rd March; 4th, 10th March; 5th, 17th March; 6th, 31st March; 7th, 14th April; 8th, 21st April; 9th, 12th May; 10th, 2nd June; 11th, 7th July; 12th, 4th August; 13th, 11th August; 14th, 25th August; 15th, 22nd September; 16th, 24th November; 17th, 1st December. It was then republished as a short book 1895, A History of the Paris Commune, Twentieth Century Press, 135pp, 87pp by Bax, together with, pp.88-135, reprints of two pamphlets which were issued by the General Council of the International Working-Men's Association during the progress of the War of 1870 and on the Communal rising in the spring of 1871. The book was republished by them 1903, 1907.