French Radicalism
(see also France, Marxism, Socialism, Anarchism)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Downs, Laura Lee. "Municipal Communism & the politics of childhood: Ivry-sur-Seine, 1925-1960," Past & Present 166 (2/00):205-41.
Johnson, Martin P. "Memory & the cult of the Revolution in the 1871 Paris Commune," Journal of Women's History 9 (1997):39-57.
Magraw, Roger. "Popular anticlericalism in 19th-c. rural France," in J. Obelkevich & others, Disciplines of Faith (London, 1987), pp. 351-71.
Reid, Donald. "Claude Berri's 'Germinal'," Radical History Review 66 (fall 96):146-62.
Ross, George & Tony Daley. "The wilting of the rose: the French socialist experiment," Socialist Review 87-88 (5-8/86):7-40.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Blackmer, Donald L.M. & Sidney Tarrow (eds.) Communism in Italy & France (Princeton: Princeton, 1975).
Christiansen, Rupert. Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune (NY, 1996).
Gould, Roger V. Insurgent Identities: Class, Community & Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune (Chicago, 1995).
Gullickson, Gay L. Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune (Ithaca: Cornell, 1996).
Fleming, Marie. The Geography of Freedom: the Odyssey of Elisée Réclus ( Montreal, 1988).
Johnson, Martin Phillip. The Paradise of Association: Political Culture & Popular Organizations in the Paris Commune of 1871 (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan, 1996).
Murphy, Francis J. Communists & Catholics in France, 1936-1939: The Politics of the Outstretched Hand (Gainesville: U. of Florida, 1989).
Prothero, Iowerth. Radical Artisans in England & France, 1830-1870 (NY, 1997).
Sánchez, Gonzalo J. Organizing Independence: The Artists' Federation of the Paris Commune & Its Legacy, 1871-1889 (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1997).
Seidman, Michael. Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris & Barcelona during the Popular Fronts (Berkeley: U. of California, 1991).
Stovall, Tyler. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt (Berkeley: U. of California, 1990).
Thomas, Edith. Louise Michel (trans. Penelope Williams; Montreal: Black Rose, 1980).
__________. The Women Incendiaries: The Inspiring Story of the Women of the Paris Commune Who Took Up Arms in the Fight for Liberty & Equality (Chicago: Haymarket, 2007).