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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part One)

1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part One)

Update: 2016-06-301
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If you think 2016 is a turbulent year for the United States, try 1877. The country is, as one observer puts it, "on the edge of a volcano." Four years into a crippling economic crisis, a hopelessly corrupt government is beset by domestic terrorism, frontier conflicts, and class war. As cities and factories replace small towns and family farms, new, unregulated corporate empires are built on the backs of a new industrial working class. Faith in the system, and in the economic and political promise of American life, is fading. And looming over it all is the specter of the Paris Commune - an uprising from below that can only end in blood...
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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part One)

1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part One)

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