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Siege and Commune of Paris Collection (ca. 1870-1871)

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Marx, Karl and V.I. Lenin. The Civil War in France: The Paris Commune

Marx and Lenin praise the Commune's achievements, describing it as the prototype for a revolutionary government of the future, "the form at last discovered" for the emancipation of the proletariat.