How Did The Paris Lead To The Failure Of The French Revolution

For a few heroic weeks in 1871, the working class took the power in Paris in their hands. In extremely risky conditions, the Parisian workers were trying to change society and to eliminate exploitation and poverty, yet have not fallen victim to brutal counter-revolution. Only the killing of nearly 20 thousand proletarians has allowed the bourgeoisie to restore the old order. The Paris commune was the first uprising in which the working class so powerfully manifested itself. For the first time in history the proletarians have shown that they are the only consistently revolutionary class of society at this time. The invaluable experience of the Paris commune shows that despite the conditions that lead to failure of the Communist revolution, the proletariat showed that it is the only social force able to raise the issue of the elimination of capitalist exploitation. For several generations of workers, the Paris commune was the starting point in the history of the labor movement. The Paris commune was established during the Franco-Prussian war, seven months after the defeat of Napoleon III at Sedan in 1870. On 3rd and 4th

The description of a British journalist, Frederic Harrison, shows us that with 250-300 thousand guardsmen fighting number of troops reached no more than 30-40 thousand. And the positions were no more than 15-16 thousand men, women and children also fought, including the creation of women's battalion. “On April 11, Parisians awoke to read in their newspapers an appeal to citoyennes , announcing that “the decisive hour has arrived” and calling on women to take up arms. Élisabeth Dmitrieff and seven other female organizers of the Union des Femmes proclaimed that women should be prepared to fight and, if necessary, to die for the cause. A group of women formed their own fighting legion, the Amazons of the Seine.” (Merriman 106) Thus, The lack of real soldiers lead to