A Socialist History of the French Revolution

'Tantalizing prose... The lively sense of being 'inside' the Assembly or the meetings of the Paris City Council leaps from the page'

-- 'Times Literary Supplement'

'The death of a single human being can mean a great battle lost for all humanity: the murder of Jaurès was one such disaster'

-- Romain Rolland

'We can say today that every revolutionary party, every oppressed people, every oppressed working class can claim Jaures, his memory, his example, and his person, for our own'

-- Leon Trotsky

'Jaurès' brilliant analysis is as refreshing and controversial today as it was over a century ago. It resonates with the passion and eloquence of this great political leader while at the same time sustaining a rigourous Marxist analysis of the social and economic forces behind the Revolution. Its appearance in this edition is to be warmly welcomed'

-- Peter McPhee, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne

'A classic of historical writing which laid the foundations for so many later accounts of the French Revolution. Jaurès vividly depicts the drama of the Revolution, the triumphs and the setbacks, the bloodshed and the hope, but always with an eye to the future, to how the Revolution opened the way to human emancipation'

-- Ian Birchall, historian and author of The Spectre of Ba