Soldiers of Revolution

Mark Lause

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Cover Page

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Republic and Nation

1. Civilization and Its Old Mole: Visions of Republican Revolution

2. New Peoples, New Visions: Industrialization, Workers, and Internationalist Revolution

3. The Health of the State: War and Secular Faith in the Nation

Part II: War for the Empire

4. The Guns of August: Civilization Asserts Itself

5. This High Road to Verdun: Turning Points in Lorraine

6. Blood and Irony: Paris, Metz, and the Salvation of the War

Part III: War for the Republic

7. The Specter Haunting Europe: The Emergence of the People and the Levée en masse

8. Shaping a Republic: From the South to the Capital

9. The Coming of Winter: Despair, Starvation, and Exposure

Part IV: WAR for the People: The Revolution

10. The Springtime of Peoples Revisited: The Specter of a Social Republic

11. Actors versus Reenactors: April 28–May 21, 1871

12. La Semaine Sanglante: The Foundations of Modern Western Civilization, May 21–28, 1871

Conclusion: The Final Conflict

Notes

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources

Index

Mark Lause

Soldiers of Revolution