NOTES
[67]
Plan of a Lecture on the Commune -- an outline of Lenin's lecture on the Paris Commune delivered by him in Geneva on March 5 (18) 1905, for the Russian colony of political emigrants.
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[68]
In his introduction to Marx's The Civil War in France, Engels analysed the situation in France after the June insurrection of 1848 saying: "If the proletariat was not yet able to rule France, the bourgeoisie could no longer do so." (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1958, Vol. 1, p. 475.)
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[69]
Here and further below Lenin refers to the German edition of Karl Marx's pamphlet The Civil War in France, which appeared in Berlin in 1891.
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[70]
Lenin draws a comparison between the executioners of the Paris Commune of 1871 and the executioners of the first Russian revolution of 1905.
Trepov, D. F. -- Governor-General of St. Petersburg; responsible for the suppression of the first Russian revolution.
Vasilchikov, S. I., Prince -- tsarist general; commanded the tsarist
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troops in St. Petersburg which shot down the peaceful demonstration of workers on January 9 (22), 1905.
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[71]
Here and further below Lenin refers to the book Histoire du mouvement social en France 1852-1902 by G. Weill, Paris, 1904.
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[72]
The number of Communard victims is quoted from Prosper Olivier
Lissagaray's Histoire de la Commune de 1871, Paris, 1896.
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