The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
Narrated by:
Michael Page
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Narrated by:
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Michael Page
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Timothy Tackett
About this listen
Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?
©2015 The President and Fellows of Harvard College (P)2020 TantorAmong other sources, it draws upon personal letters from this period to convey a sense of the way in which each twist and turn “felt” to those who were involved or were simply watching things unfold.
It’s a fascinating study into the evolving mindset of large groups of people, but also quite sobering.
This book is quite timely, as some liberal democracies destroy the institutional guardrails of their societies and engage in increasingly aggressive and extreme partisan politics.
In this context, there are certainly many lessons that we can learn from this terrible episode of human history; which after all is about humans, who share the same fundamental characteristics from generation to generation.
Hopefully, it will help us avoid a similar trajectory.
How ideals can be derailed - a timely study
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