Paris Commune Part 5: Aftermath
Cover Image: Photograph of communards manning a barricade in Paris, March 18th, 1871.
Closing Theme: "La Varsovienne" performed by Catherine Ribeiro.
After just a few weeks of intense violence, the uprising in Paris is suppressed. But while the commune was vanquished, its defenders killed, imprisoned, or sent into exile, its legacy would live on- casting a long shadow over the history of France and that of the international socialist movement.