The Guardian

Paris in flames as communards vanquished - archive 1871

25 May 1871: The fighting throughout the day has been desperate and bloody beyond precedent ST. DENIS, WEDNESDAY. Severe fighting continues round the Hotel de Ville. At 5 p.m the cannonade was loud ...
Hyperallergic

The Father of French Journalism Who Documented Paris’s Socialist Revolution

Bruno Braquehais, "Toppled bronze statue of Napoleon from the Vendôme Column" (1871), albumen print (all images courtesy Getty Research Institute) This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris ...
Hyperallergic

The Iconography of the Paris Commune, 150 Years Later

Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888). "Episode de la Commune, place de la Concorde". Huile sur toile. Paris, musée Carnavalet. (all images courtesy Wikimedia Commons) Louise Michel, leader of the Montmartre ...
Brandeis University

Paris Commune Posters

The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department has seven posters that were displayed publicly during the events of the 1871 Paris Commune. The collection includes posters ...
Countercurrents

Lenin On The Paris Commune (1871): An Heroic Uprising

Chapter Three of State and Revolution is devoted to Lenin's commentary on Marx's analysis of the 1871 Paris Commune. It is divided into five parts. This article deals with the first part of the ...
The Local

Commemoration begins of the bloody weeks of the Paris Commune of 1871

Silhouettes of the Communards and the Communardes created by the artist Dugudus, are presented in front of the Sacré Coeur Basilica in Paris, on March 18, 2021, to commemorate the 150 years of the ...