Introduction by Henry Heller
Translator’s Note
1. Introduction
2. The Causes of the Revolution
3. July 14, 1789
4. National Lands
5. The Revolutionary 'Journées'
6. The Flight to Varennes
7. The Insurrection of August 10, 1792
8. The September Massacres
9. The Battle of Valmy
10. The Trial of the King
11. The Enragés against the High Cost of Living
12. The Revolution of May 31 and June 2, 1793
13. Marat’s Assassination
14. Dechristianization
15. The Dictatorship of Public Safety and the Fight against the
Factions
16. The Terror and Fall of Robespierre
17. How Should We Judge the Revolutionaries?
Index
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, USA.
Amongst his many works, he is the author of May Made Me.
Mitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn, USA.
Amongst his many works, he is the author of May Made Me.
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).
'Tantalizing prose... The lively sense of being 'inside' the
Assembly or the meetings of the Paris City Council leaps from the
page'
*'Times Literary Supplement'*
'The death of a single human being can mean a great battle lost for
all humanity: the murder of Jaurès was one such disaster'
*Romain Rolland*
'We can say today that every revolutionary party, every oppressed
people, every oppressed working class can claim Jaures, his memory,
his example, and his person, for our own'
*Leon Trotsky*
'Jaurès' brilliant analysis is as refreshing and controversial
today as it was over a century ago. It resonates with the passion
and eloquence of this great political leader while at the same time
sustaining a rigourous Marxist analysis of the social and economic
forces behind the Revolution. Its appearance in this edition is to
be warmly welcomed'
*Peter McPhee, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne*
'A classic of historical writing which laid the foundations for so
many later accounts of the French Revolution. Jaurès vividly
depicts the drama of the Revolution, the triumphs and the setbacks,
the bloodshed and the hope, but always with an eye to the future,
to how the Revolution opened the way to human emancipation'
*Ian Birchall, historian and author of The Spectre of Babeuf*
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