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The Bolsheviks won the civil war because their enemies had no reform program, the Bolsheviks used terror, and Trotsky made the Red Army brutally effective.
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Terror
The Bolsheviks won the civil war because their enemies had no reform program, the Bolsheviks used terror, and Trotsky made the Red Army brutally effective.
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The Terror is directed not only at enemies but also at left-wing allies when they threaten the revolution's survival or Robespierre's vision of it.
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Robespierre's Terror is justified in his speeches as a struggle to energize France against internal traitors, not merely external armies.
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Robespierre's moral universe divides the revolution into good versus evil, where terror becomes an emanation of virtue and a democratic necessity.
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Robespierre purifies the polluted energy of the Terror by becoming the scapegoat who takes guilt for the nation and allows France to move on.
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For Jiang, Aztec human sacrifice functions as political terror: it terrorizes enemies, unites the people, and maintains a war society's religious order.
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The conquest toolkit for poorer or fewer outsiders is escalation dominance, terror, and an aura of inevitability or invincibility, which lets them win psychologically before they win materially.
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Psychological warfare compensated for low population and weak governance capacity by making enemies and subjects afraid to fight or rebel.
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"...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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"...revolution all right so so they are fanatically instilling fear and terror among the russian people the last reason the most important reason is..."
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"backhoe a blocker will shoot you to death okay so it is brutal but it works very effectively okay so he turns the red..."
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"...for mountain. And of course he then begins the Ring of Terror. Okay? And we discussed why he starts the Ring of Terror. He..."
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"...his speech before the National Assembly to explain the Ring of Terror to judge by the power and the will of a Republican soldier..."
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"Okay? So the Ring of Terror is to energize the people. Right? The eternal intrigues of all enemies of freedom within the country and..."
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"So, Rose Pier is dreaming of a world in which everyone is equal. The great purity of the French Revolution's fundamental elements, the very..."
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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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"...Does that make sense? Okay? But um but the Ring of Terror what it did was unleash all this energy. Okay? And this energy..."
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"...By sacrificing yourself. By telling the French people the Ring of Terror was not your fault it was my fault. Blame me. Sacrifice me...."
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"So Mexico City, if you have a chance to visit there, it is actually on the site of Teno -Teclen, which is a city..."
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"...heart while you were alive. And obviously, the entire point was terror, okay? To terrorize your enemies and to unite your people. And, what's..."
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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