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Revolutionary terror, also referred to as revolutionary terrorism or reign of terror, [1] refers to the institutionalized application of force to counter-revolutionaries, particularly during the French Revolution from the years 1793 to 1795 (see the Reign of Terror).
The Commune of Paris and the revolutionary committees in the sections had to obey the law, the two Committees, and the Convention. [57] Desmoulins argued that the Revolution should return to its original ideas en vogue around 10 August 1792. [58] A Committee of Grace had to be established. On 8 December, Madame du Barry was guillotined.
The provisional Revolutionary Tribunal was established on 17 August 1792 in response to the Storming of the Tuileries, to ensure that there was some appropriate legal process for dealing with suspects accused of political crimes and treason, rather than arbitrary killing by local committees.
On 14 February Joseph Fernex, a judge on the former Revolutionary Committee, in prison since Thermidor, is killed and thrown into the Rhône by a mob. [18] On 1 March another member of the Revolutionary Committee, Sautemouche, is killed. [19] Later in February Jacobin prisoners in Nimes are killed. [17]
Charles Tilly defines "terror" as a political strategy defined as "asymmetrical deployment of threats and violence against enemies using means that fall outside the forms of political struggle routinely operating within some current regime", and therefore ranges from "(1) intermittent actions by members of groups that are engaged in wider political struggles to (2) one segment in the modus ...
On the evening of 4 December 1793 (14 Frimaire, Year II), there was a meeting of key members of the Revolutionary Committee of Nantes: Jean-Baptiste Carrier, François-Louis Phélippes Tronjolly and colleagues, Julien Minée for the department, Renard for the city, and representatives of the Société populaire de Nantes. In the course of ...
Azef, a double-agent in the employ of the Tsarist secret police Okhrana, changed the Terrorist Brigade's mode of attack from firearms to dynamite. In its middle period (1903–1906) the brigade's members included more than a dozen women and more than four dozen men—some nobles, honorary citizens, priests, and merchants.
In leftist terminology, individual terror, a form of revolutionary terror, is the murder of isolated individuals with the goal of promotion of a political movement, of provoking political changes, up to political revolution.