[Just mythoughts]

Would you give me the names of "history" books that record this?

I have read about some of these events. Not quite the way you have described.

Not that I do not believe you. Would like to research the history.

I always considered the French Revolution to be the foundation for what has followed the past almost 200 years.

[DentsRun]

Would you give me the names of "history" books that record this?

I got this off the Internet last year and saved it on my hard drive. It's a chapter from a book on the "Origins of Communism." The information I posted can be found at:

http://user.pa.net/~drivera/fw7.htm

It's a long selection so search for Schiff or Trotsky or something to take you to the right place.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"I always considered the French Revolution to be the foundation for what has followed the past almost 200 years"

The French revolution of 1848 deserves a very close look also in this regard.

"Les Miserables" (The Wretched) by that old whiner Victor Hugo was a pro-commune tract.No surprise that Napoleon III chased him out of France for being a leftist pain in the behind.

Salut!