The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune, 1871

Location: Yonge and College /downtown Toronto Cash only; prices are firm. "A hundred years ago Paris erupted in a Left-wing revolution whose lessons served Lenin well in 1917. Beneath the glitttering facade of Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire there were seething forces of social and political unrest. When France succumbed to the Prussian invaders these forces came to the surface and the Commune took over. It ruled for only a brief seventy days before it died in a holocaust of fire and bloodshed that was far worse than anything that was perpetrated during France's Great Revolution of 1789, but it left behind an indelible mark which spread far beyond the boundaries of France..." - The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune, 1871 - Alistair Horne Check out my other book posts as well!