Labels:bulletin board | chat room | reckoner | sky OCR: aris Commune Lasting from March to May 28 the short- -lived Commune wAs municipal insurrection that drove the established government into exile 6 Versailles The Paris Commune sprang from com plex set t of circum stances: irritation and disgust at the lss f the WAY with Prussia the misery tof the four-month siege of Paris anc working-class dissa tisfaction with conservative republic- anism The insurgents set up their own democratically elected government and began ta reshape the institutions that affected their lives But aided by the Prussians who released their French prisoners, the regime ir exile launch ed an all out assault against the Communards and ruth- lessly crushed the Commune during Bloody Week (May 21 -28) .The Versaillais killed 25,000 to 30,000 men and WO men many them summari ...