The Paris Commune of 1871 was a short-lived insurrection of the French capital against the Third Republic. Despite only ...

It requires that the working class conquers state power based on its own political and social organisations, as the Paris Commune did in 1871 or the soviets in the October 1917 revolution in Russia.

Ancient propaganda supporting Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II has been found on a 3,300-year-old obelisk in Paris, as revealed by Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier.

A review of Sebastian Smee’s 'Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism,' which rewrites the origin story of modernism.

Months passed, and the Siege of Paris gave way to the Paris Commune and thousands of murdered civilians. The Monets moved on to the Netherlands, where Camille taught French and Claude painted canals.

BOOK REVIEW When Paris was under siege, its artists turned from war’s horrors to love and light Sebastian Smee argues in his new book that Impressionism was born amid both hardship and romance ...

Olympic competitors risk being used as "Russian propaganda" after the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at the Paris ...

The Paris Commune: The Long Shadow of France’s ‘Other’ Revolution We can look to the past for visions of how to shape our future. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee’s ...

The Paris Commune instituted socialist reforms such as a 10-hour workweek but also shut down Catholic churches and schools, seized Church money and properties, and arrested hundreds of priests ...

My discussion of the Paris Commune’s relevance, and of the relevance of Marx and Engels’s reflections on it, will revolve around three key points. First, the worldview through which Marx and ...