Table of Contents

Part 1 A time of transition: from Jacobinism to socialism; from restoration to revolution. Part 2 The barricades of France: the revolutions of 1830; Lyons - the third revolution; the February Revolution of 1848; the growing crisis; "Defeat the revolution"; the June insurrection; reaction and revival - the First International; prelude to the Paris Commmune; the Paris Commune of 1871; envoi. Part 3 Proletarian socialism: socialism in the factories; the social-democratic interregnum - the Second International and the coming of the World War.