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COMMUNE (Med. See also: group of persons acting together for purposes of self-See also: government, especially in towns
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(See See also: BOROUGH, and COMMUNE, See also: MEDIEVAL, below.) " Commune " (Fr. commune, Ital. comune, Ger
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Gemeinde, &c.) is now the See also: term generally applied to the smallest administrative division in many See also: European countries
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(See the sections dealing with the administration of these countries under their several headings.) " The Commune" is the name given to the See also: period of the See also: history of See also: Paris from See also: March 18 to May 28, 1871, during which the commune of Paris attempted to set up its authority against the
See also: National See also: Assembly at See also: Versailles
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It was a See also: political See also: movement, intended to replace the centralized national organization by one based on a federation of communes
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Hence the " communists " were also called " federalists." It had nothing to do with the social theories of See also: Communism (q.v.)
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