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3.4: The Flag That Failed
As you read this piece, consider why Burchell chose the title. What do you think it refers to? Which flag failed?
He wants to help us see that not everything was peaceful and smooth during the Age of Progress. There were social and political tensions boiling underneath the surface of society, even if the bourgeois and aristocratic elites wanted to ignore them. At times, those tensions revealed themselves in sudden spectacular eruptions: the Paris Commune, general strikes, political assassinations, and the Revolution of 1905 in Russia. This undercurrent of violent revolution would finally explode during and after the First World War.
Reader pp. 187-194
YOUR TASKS: ANNOTATE AND WRITE
TASK 1: For THIS part, you don’t have to answer the questions, only ANNOTATE
Questions to consider as you read (you DO have to mark them in the text as you go—you DON’T have to write out answers to the following questions):
(187-188) What was the Paris Commune? Did it succeed?
(188) Why was the Paris Commune an important symbol? Who did it inspire?
(188-189) What was the inspiration for revolution during the Age of Progress?
(189) How did workers first try to change the status quo?
(189-190) What were Mikhail Bakunin’ s goals?
(190) Anarchists’ actions in the 1880s-1914?
(191-193) What were the causes of the 1905 Revolution in Russia?
(193) What was a “soviet”?
(193) Did the Revolutionaries get what they wanted? What did Trotsky and Lenin think about it?
(194) What did the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s reveal about France? Which social and political groups did the Affair destroy? Which group became dominant?
TASK 2: WRITE
As you read, you MUST do the following:
· What surprised me?
· Record 3 pieces of evidence or examples that illustrate the chapter theme!
· What is something that the author seems to think I already know?
· What changed, challenged, or confirmed what I already (thought I) knew?
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