A weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions. Now: The Russian Revolution Next: ???
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 17 hours 46 minutes
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episode 51: 3.42- The Whiff of Grapeshot
When the Thermidorean Convention introduced the Constitution of Year III, the political Right went a little nuts.
episode 50: 3.41- Bread and the Constitution of 1793
That's the slogan that rallied the last remnents of the sans culottes to action...right before they got crushed by the Thermidorean Convention.
episode 49: 3.40- The Frozen Rivers
The terrible winter of 1794-95 helped France push back all her enemies. Also...Poland!
episode 48: 3.39- The Death of the Jacobins
After the events of 9 Thermidor, the Revolution began to swing back to the right.
episode 47: Help Scott Help Syria
Promoting a fundraising drive spearheaded by Scott Chesworth at the Ancient World podcast to help preseve Syria's massively important cultural treasures. Link to . Direct Link to the Direct Link to Scott's findraising page for the
episode 46: 3.38- Thermidor
The events of 9 Thermidor II brought Act I of the French Revolution to a gruesome end.
episode 45: 3.37- The Republic of Virtue
If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent.
episode 44: 3.36- The Liquidation Process
In the spring of 1794. the Revolution devoured a few of her most beloved children. sponsor link:
episode 43: 3.35- The Law of 14 Frimaire
At the end of 1793, the Committee of Public Safety completed it's consolidation of power.