A Socialist History of the French Revolution

Jean Jaurès (3 September 1859 - 31 July 1914) was a French Socialist who became the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. The two parties merged in 1905 in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). An antimilitarist, Jaurès was assassinated at the outbreak of World War I, and remains one of the main historical figures of the French Left. Mitchell Abidor's books include anthologies of the anarchist writings of Victor Serge, on the propagandists of the deed, the Paris Commune, the left of the French Revolution, and French anarchist individualists. Henry Heller is professor of history at the University of Manitoba, Canada and the author of The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st-Century Perspective, The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, and The Bourgeois Revolution in France.