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The French Revolution's descent into state-sponsored mass killing. The panel examines how revolutionary idealism became revolutionary violence, and whether the Terror was an aberration or a logical consequence of revolutionary logic.
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During the Terror, denouncing others was the primary survival strategy. The revolutionary environment created incentives for paranoid behavior that were individually rational but collectively catastrophic.
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