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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
HOW BLOODY WAS LA SEMAINE SANGLANTE OF 1871? A REVISION
Beteiligte:
TOMBS, ROBERT
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press, 2012
Erschienen in:The Historical Journal
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/S0018246X12000222
ISSN:
0018-246X;
1469-5103
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Beschreibung:
<p>The dominant memory of the Paris Commune has been of disproportionate violence wreaked on the Communards by a brutal government. However, accounts of the extent of the bloodshed rest on flimsy foundations. A range of archival evidence suggests that the death toll has been greatly exaggerated, and a revised estimate is here proposed. How and why the number of deaths became crucial to the history of the Commune from an early date is explored. If the killing was in reality on a far less apocalyptic scale, how does this affect the narrative of nineteenth-century French politics and its 'memory'?</p>