1. French Revolution
The Paris Commune took over control of Paris. ... Every citizen was required to carry an identity card issued by his local commune, called Certificates of Good Citizenship. ... The Revolutionary Communes had committees that watched everyone in the neighborhood and special passes were needed to travel from one city to another. ... The purge, the commune, the color red as a symbol of statism, even the political terms Left, Right, and Center came to us from this period. ...