Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror

Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (Full Series)

This is Barris! - French History
Mar 7, 2020
The year is 1793, Louis XVI has just been executed. France is devastated by its civil war and is now threatened by the 1st Coalition. Paranoia and terror, oh, terror grips the country by its throat as the people ask for more and more purges. As a result, almost 17,000 are executed in just over a year. France now lives under the tyranny of the Committee of Public Safety, with at its head, Maximilien Robespierre.

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French Revolution – The Fall of Robespierre– Colin Jones (Author Interview, 2024)

War Books Podcast - by A.J. Woodhams
Jan 3, 2024  Full Interviews
Ep 048 – Nonfiction. By July 1794, Robespierre was an outlaw, wanted for conspiracy against the French Republic. Historian Colin Jones chronicles Robespierre's finals hours & joins me to discuss his new book, "The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris."

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Interview with Colin Jones on the Fall of Robespierre

Travels Through Time
Jul 29, 2021  Podcasts
It's 227 years this week since Maximilien Robespierre went to the guillotine. We investigate the circumstances of his downfall.

In this brilliantly analytical episode, Professor Colin Jones, one of the finest living scholars of early modern France, takes us back to one of the most dramatic episodes in all political history: 9-10 Thermidor in the Revolutionary Calendar, or 27-28 July in ours.

As Jones explains, Robespierre began 9 Thermidor feeling relatively secure as he went to sleep in his austere lodgings near the Place de la R;volution. By the time the sun set into the summer horizon, his position was parlous. The next day he would be dead.

The story and characters that feature in this episode of Travels Through Time are drawn from Jones’s forthcoming book, The Fall of Robespierre: twenty four hours in Revolutionary Paris, which will soon be published by Oxford University Press.

As ever, much, much more about this episode is to be found at our website tttpodcast.com.


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The First Terror Of The French Revolution | The September Massacres...

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Mar 3, 2025  The Rest Is History
Welcome to SEASON THREE of the French Revolution, as we cover The September Massacres, otherwise known as 'The First Terror'.

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‘Still more traitors, still more treason…"

It is 1792 and France has been at war since April; it is not going well. In Paris, the Tuileries Palace has been stormed, and the royal family imprisoned. Meanwhile, tensions are rising between the main political factions of the Revolution, the Girondins and the Montagnard, led by the icy Maximilien Robespierre. The streets of Paris teem with armed young men - the Federes and the Sans-Culottes - responsible for the brutal slaughtering of the Swiss Guard earlier that year. They have arrested and imprisoned thousands of people. It is into this progressively febrile atmosphere of paranoia and fear that terrible news arrives: the Prussians, hungry for vengeance, have taken the fortress of Verdin. Rumours swirl of treason and betrayal from deep within Paris itself, and a new, chilling idea is raised to wash the city of counter revolutionaries once and for all: cleanse the prisons. So it is that on the 2nd of September, a group of Prisoners being escorted from one prison to another is stopped, and methodically hacked to death. The survivors face an impromptu tribunal before receiving the same treatment. Over the next few days, all prisoners across Paris are likewise judged, and many similarly damned and mutilated. A tide of bloodshed is rising, which will soon flood the streets of Paris, taking thousands of lives with it. Who will survive the massacre?

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00:00 – The Blood-Soaked Streets of Paris 
00:24 – A Speech to Save France 
01:07 – Churchill or Danton? 
02:34 – A War Going Horribly Wrong 
06:06 – Paris is Paranoid 
09:40 – Treason at the Front Lines 
12:03 – Don’t Look in the Cellar… 
16:21 – A Death Sentence in Disguise 
19:20 – The First Bloodshed Begins 
20:55 – Silence Before the Slaughter 
25:09 – When Justice Turns to Horror 
30:33 – The Most Famous Victim 
37:40 – A Head on a Pike 
40:04 – Propaganda and Power 
45:09 – Paris Accepts the Massacre 
50:00 – A Glimpse into the Future of Terror 
55:10 – The Enemy is Still Marching 
56:10 – A Final Stand at Valmy 
57:01 – Next Time: The Fall of the Monarchy 

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The Most Unexpected Revolutionary: The French Revolution (S03E02)

The Rest Is History
Mar 6, 2025  The Rest Is History
This is episode 2 of season 3 of the French Revolution, see episode 1 here:    • The First Terror Of The French Revolu... 

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00:00 The embodiment of France
03:10 Popular sovereignty
07:15 France represented as a woman
12:43 Women’s role in the revolution thus far
18:01 The most important woman in the early revolution
24:17 Disney+
28:22 The women pushing for equal rights
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Массовые репрессии 1937-38 годов, кто их устроил и для какой цели? Мифы и вымыслы

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Apr 26, 2024
Государственный террор в Советской России начался почти сразу после захвата власти большевиками и продолжался все годы правления Сталина. Уровень репрессий всегда был высок, но в отдельные периоды происходил резкий всплеск массовых репрессий, как это произошло в 1937 – 38 годах. В историографии этот период назван «Большим террором».
Широкомасштабные аресты начались после назначения Сталиным на пост наркома НКВД Николая Ежова. 30 июля 1937 года Ежов издал приказ №00447 «Об операции по репрессированию бывших кулаков, уголовников и других антисоветских элементов». Сворачивание Большого террора произошло в ноябре 1938 года после издания специального постановления ЦК партии и замены Ежова на посту главы НКВД Берией. За эти 15 месяцев было арестовано более 1 миллиона 700 тыс. человек. Это были люди, которые могли представлять угрозу советской власти: раскулаченные кулаки, бывшие белогвардейцы, бывшие царские офицеры, воевавшие за красных, уцелевшие царские чиновники, бывшие оппозиционеры всех мастей, «враги» уже отбывшие свой срок и вышедшие на свободу, и политические заключенные, которые еще оставались в лагерях. На одном из последних мест в этом списке шли уголовники.
Согласно исследованиям историка Виктора Земскова по политическим мотивам было осуждено более одного миллиона трехсот тысяч человек, из которых почти 682 тыс. было расстреляно. Т.е. каждый день арестовывали более 3,5 тыс. человек, из которых каждый день расстреливали до 1,5 тыс. Приговоры выносили особые тройки, десятками и даже сотнями в день, без обвиняемых и без рассмотрения материалов дел, на это просто не было времени. Да и зачем? Расстрельные списки были уже согласованны. Это был настоящий конвейер смерти. Из всех расстрельных приговоров, вынесенных за весь сталинский период, 85%  пришлось именно на эти 15 месяцев.
Кто был инициатором и организатором «Большого террора»?
Какие спекуляции и мифы на этой теме появились в 90-е годы?
О чем говорят открытые архивы?
Как проводились массовые репрессии?
Для какой цели был устроен «Большой террор»?

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