Fascinating history of the Second World War as fought 'from below' by anti-fascist militias, who worked both with and against the allied powers.[...]
For two months in 1871, the workers of Paris took control of Europe's most celebrated capital city. When they established the world's first workers' democracy--the Paris Commune--they found no ready-made blueprints, and no precedents to study for how to run their city without princes, prison wardens[...]