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Article: David Shafer. The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism.(Book review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2006
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David Sharer. The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2005. 240 pp. $29.95
Revolutionary republicanism, socialism, anarchism, utopian socialism all found their expression in the Commune that, in turn, represented the culmination of these distinct movements." (7)
David Shafer, professor of modern European history and director of French Studies at California State University, has written an impressive book on the Paris Commune. Developing his previous essays and reviews on the topic, Shafer provides an advanced but readable ...