Sunday, Jun 20, 2010 19:01 ET A new history of bomb-throwing anarchists and conniving intelligence agents in the 1800s is chillingly familiar
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"We shook off the empire as though it had been a nightmare," wrote the French radical journalist Juliette Adam, describing the handful of weeks in 1871 when the city of Paris ran itself at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The Paris Commune -- an idealistic interlude marked by the official separation of church and state, plans for universal education and workers' and women's rights -- haunted the late-19th-century lives that British historian Alex Butterworth recounts in
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