the Great Terror

GPTKB entity

Properties (62)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical event
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Robespierre
gptkbp:characterizedBy political purges
gptkbp:completed 1794
gptkbp:criticism historical scholars
modern human rights advocates
gptkbp:documentedIn historical records
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label the Great Terror
gptkbp:influenced Enlightenment ideas
the Enlightenment
totalitarian regimes
the ideas of the Enlightenment
the sans-culottes
the_ideology_of_Rousseau
the_war_with_Austria
gptkbp:inspiration literature and art
gptkbp:involved the Revolutionary Tribunal
gptkbp:is_a_time_for political extremism
extreme measures
extreme nationalism
gptkbp:is_characterized_by political repression
state-sponsored violence
fear and paranoia
the suppression of dissent
the use of terror as a political tool
gptkbp:is_known_for the guillotine
gptkbp:is_part_of the Reign of Terror
the radical phase of the revolution
gptkbp:is_supported_by the_Committee_of_Public_Safety
gptkbp:ledTo the Thermidorian Reaction
the establishment of the Directory
the fall of the Girondins
gptkbp:occursAnnually 1793
gptkbp:opposedBy the Girondins
the need for security
the moderates
the Dantonists
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:the_French_Revolution
gptkbp:period political violence
political upheaval
gptkbp:resultedIn mass executions
gptkbp:significantEvent the development of modern political thought
French_history
the_history_of_France
gptkbp:targets counter-revolutionaries
gptkbp:was_a_factor_in the_rise_of_Napoleon
gptkbp:was_a_response_to internal dissent
foreign threats
the_execution_of_Louis_XVI
gptkbp:was_a_result_of political instability
the revolutionary fervor
the radicalization of the revolution
the fear of foreign invasion
the_rise_of_the_Jacobins
the_Jacobin_leadership
the_radicalization_of_the_Jacobins
gptkbp:was_marked_by mass arrests
the use of spies
the rise of radicalism
the execution of thousands
the_Law_of_Suspects
the_execution_of_Robespierre