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Ending the Terror
The French Revolution after Robespierre

Author: Bronislaw Baczko, Université de Genève
Translator: Michael Petheram

Date Published: July 1994
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521441056

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Ending the Terror makes accessible a major revisionist assessment of a crucial moment in the history of the French Revolution. The months that followed the fall of Robespierre in July 1794 mark not only a turning point in the history of the Revolution: 'Thermidor' is also a symbolic moment which came to haunt the subsequent revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By this date the Terror as a system of power was discredited, and the engineers of the Terror were confronting the problem of how to dismantle it without repudiating the aims of the Revolution itself and its work. Professor Baczko analyses the Terror in detail through the political history of the French National Assembly, and also looks at the broader issues of the political culture of Revolutionary France.
- First English translation of a major piece of French history
- Focuses on key period of the French Revolution and its most famous protagonist, Robespierre
- Examines the crucial problem in all Revolutions of gaining and maintaining power
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Product details
- Date Published: July 1994
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521441056
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.546kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Robespierre-the-king …
2. The end of Year II
3. 'Horror the order of the day'
4. The vandal people
5. The Thermidorean moment
By way of a conclusion: Thermidor in history
Chronology of events mentioned in the text
Index.
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Author
Bronislaw Baczko, Université de Genève
Translator
Michael Petheram