"Reprinted from the Massachusetts review, volume XII, number 3, summer 1971." Bibliography: p. 233-238. Chronology -- The commune- a century after / Henri Peyre -- The permanence of the commune / Richard Greeman -- The failure of revolution / Frederick Busi -- The women of the commune / Edith Thomas -- The commune and the revolt of Jules Valláes / Gordon Shenton -- Feminism and anti-clericalism under the commune / Persis Hunt -- The commune in 1971 / C.L.R. James -- The impact of the Paris commune in the United States / Samuel Bernstein -- Interview with Karl Marx / Philip S. Foner -- The Paris commune and Marx's conception of the dictatorship of the proletariat / Monty Johnstone -- Marx, Engels and the British response to the commune / Royden Harrison -- From a letter of 1871 / W.J. Linton -- Images of the Paris commune in contemporary Chinese Marxist thought / Maurice Meisner -- Jules Antoine Castagnary : a plea for a dead friend (Gustave Courbet) / Alda Cannon and Frank Anderson Trapp, editor-translators -- Bresdin to Redon : two letters 1870, 1871, engraving by Leonard Baskin / Seymour S. Weiner, editor-translator -- The Paris commune and the artists / Jeffry Kaplow -- Rimbaud and the commune / Wallace Fowlie -- Edmond de Goncourt and the Paris commune / Richard B. Grant -- Trauma and recoil: the intellectuals / W.M. Frohock -- French writers and the commune / Henriette Psichari -- Bertolt Brecht: the days of the commune, a play / Leonard Lehrman, translator -- Selected bibliography / Ronald Tobin.