The Internationale is the best-known anthem of the socialist and communist movements. The French worker and poet Eugene Pottier wrote its words in 1871, in the days after the bloody suppression of the Paris Commune, and the tune was composed by Pierre De Geyter in 1888 for a workers' choir in Lille. It was translated into dozens of languages and sung at labour gatherings and revolutions around the world. It served as the national anthem of the Soviet Union until a new one replaced it in the 1940s. The song's opening call to the oppressed to rise up has made it a lasting symbol of international solidarity among workers.
Before and after
- 5 December 1870Death of Alexandre Dumas
- 1871Aida
- 1871Publication of Through the Looking-Glass
- from 1 January 1871 to 9 November 1918German Empire
- 1871The Internationale
- from 28 January 1871 to 28 July 1914Belle Époque
- 5 March 1871Birth of Rosa Luxemburg
- from 18 March 1871 to 28 May 1871Paris Commune
- 10 May 1871Treaty of Frankfurt
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The era
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