History A-Level
Revolutionary crisis and political fear
What Revolutionary crisis and political fear means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Revolutionary crisis and political fear
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Growing economic and political fear by mid-1794 created a volatile climate, with inflation, food shortages and anxiety among deputies about further purges.
Topics that use Revolutionary crisis and political fear
- The National Convention, the Jacobins and the Terror, 1793–94 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Political factionalism and the purge of the Girondins
- Popular politics and the sans-culottes
- Revolutionary crisis and emergency government
- The end of the Terror and the Thermidorean Reaction
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