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Author Bowd, Gavin, 1966- author.

Title The last communard : Adrien Lejeune, the unexpected life of a revolutionary / Gavin Bowd.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Verso, 2016.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  335.43 BOW    Check Shelf
Edition [First edition].
Description 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index.
Contents Introduction: from one wall to another -- Birth of a communard -- Lejeune, communard -- After the commune -- Lejeune in the USSR -- Death of a communard -- The return of Lejeune -- Ends of the commune.
Summary This book provides a narrative of the life and work of Adriene Lejeune. Beginning with his birth in Bagnolet in 1847, it traces his role in the uprising of the Paris Commune, his immigration to Russia, his life in the Soviet Union, his flight to Siberia in 1941 in the wake of the Nazi invasion of western Russia and his death there in 1942.
Language Translated from the French.
Subject Lejeune, Adrien, 1847-1942.
Lejeune, Adrien, 1847-1942. (OCoLC)fst01674985
Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography.
Communists -- France -- Biography.
French -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871.
Communists. (OCoLC)fst00870612
French. (OCoLC)fst00934209
Revolutionaries. (OCoLC)fst01096578
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
France -- Paris. (OCoLC)fst01205283
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Commune (Paris, France : 1871) (OCoLC)fst01404494
Chronological Term 1871
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Dernier communard. English
Other Form: Online version: Bowd, Gavin, 1966- Last communard. [First edition]. Brooklyn, NY : Verso, [2016] 9781784782887 (DLC) 2016007830
ISBN 9781784782856 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1784782858 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781784782887
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