On the Paris Commune
by: Marx, Karl/ Engels, Friedrich

Hardcover. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 357 pages. "On March 18, 1871, the workers of Paris expelled the bourgeois rulers of the city and took power into their own hands , a shining achievement never to be forgotten. Ten days later, on March 28, they set up the Paris Commune, the world's first proletarian state. It was of an entirely new type, being governed by the people and for the people, with all its social and political measures taken in the interest of the working people, the working class above all." -from the Preface. First printing of this selection, published for the centenary of the Commune. With ribbon bookmark. Clean copy.