Socialist History of the French Revolution

Jean Jaures (1859-1914) was the leader of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. An antimilitarist, Jaures was assassinated at the outbreak of World War I, and remains one of the main inspirations to the French left. His defining work was A Socialist History of the French Revolution.Mitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to his many translation works, he is the author of May Made Me and I'll Forget It When I Die!: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917. Abidor is the translator and editor of Victor Serge's anarchist writings, Anarchists Never Surrender, and translated with Richard Greeman Serge's Notebooks (1936-1947).Mitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to his many translation works, he is the author of May Made Me and I'll Forget It When I Die!: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917. Abidor is the translator and editor of Victor Serge's anarchist writings, Anarchists Never Surrender, and translated with Richard Greeman Serge's Notebooks (1936-1947).Henry Heller is a Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of The Capitalist University (Pluto, 2016), The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st Century Perspective (Pluto, 2011) The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (Monthly Review Press, 2006) and The Bourgeois Revolution in France (Berghahn, 2006).

• Introduction by Henry HellerTranslator’s Note1. Introduction2. The Causes of the Revolution3. July 14, 17894. National Lands5. The Revolutionary 'Journées'6. The Flight to Varennes7. The Insurrection of August 10, 17928. The September Massacres9. The Battle of Valmy10. The Trial of the King11. The Enragés against the High Cost of Living12. The Revolution of May 31 and June 2, 179313. Marat’s Assassination14. Dechristianization15. The Dictatorship of Public Safety and the Fight against the Factions16. The Terror and Fall of Robespierre17. How Should We Judge the Revolutionaries?Index

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