Paris Commune: The revolt dividing France 150 years on
The Paris Commune lasted until late May 1871, culminating in a so-called "bloody week" Exactly 150 years after the Paris Commune, rival passions are flaring again over how to remember the city's brief and much-romanticised experiment in power to the people. The first act of the city's famous insurrection came on 18 March 1871, when crowds stopped troops from requisitioning cannons parked on the hi
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East Germany's last communist leader talks about the fall of communism and his love of Russia.
Lessons from history for Europe's future
As European leaders meet this week to find a way forward from the UK's decision to leave the EU, James Naughtie surveys the mood in France. A man said to me in Paris, "It's historic." "Yes," I said, but he was talking about the football. I was thinking about Henry the Fifth, because there is nothing like disappearing into the past to make you think about the present. You might not have thought, a
Q&A: Armenian genocide dispute
Arguments have raged for decades about the Armenian deaths in 1915-16 The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One remains a highly sensitive issue. Turkey has resisted widespread calls for it to recognise the 1915-16 killings as genocide, while historians continue to argue about the events. At the time there were numerous reports of Turkish atrocities committed against the
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