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Robespierre's radical policy of mass execution meant to solidify and advance the revolution through terror.
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Reign of Terror
Robespierre's radical policy of mass execution meant to solidify and advance the revolution through terror.
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Jiang reads the Reign of Terror as a policy of mass execution justified as revolutionary purification against internal enemies, speculation, hoarding, and conspiracy.
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"...more radical proposals. His most radical proposal is called the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror is a time of mass execution, okay?..."
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"So, over a few years, three or four years, the Reign of Terror will kill, at all, at least 40,000 people within Paris alone,..."
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"...second thing is the um the bolsheviks will enact a reign of terror okay they have the secret police called the czech which"
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"...to lead the people by reason and the people's enemy by terror. Okay? This reign of terror, it is about the ultimate victory against..."
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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