Anatomy of a Revolution; 8; The Reigns of Terror and Virtue of Social Life

move move have have i have to have i don't know it's been nice but those in this talk for the most part to leave the drama of politics the struggle for power and success at the top look into some of the ways in which the revolutions that their height affected the lives of ordinary men and women let me start with really edgy subject i wore it briefly mentioned to the yard and revolutionized the past seems as one of my jacket and friends call it a tissue of arrows something to be forgotten and the president the new man new ideas seen something to be

glorified checked before everyone's mind and i the english relatively unexciting people get a little green day that they can show their faith in the new iraq by often giving up traditional christian nations finding them associated with the worshipers say snob evils and invented some pretty incredible no one's my favorite is the firm of your old one a man named put my trust in christ and fleet fornication williams i'll be good but before you might have thought the logical french did their best to make a clean sweep of names associated with canes saints the rest of the bad old days people named jane mayer was often change their name to more modern law an interesting fact of the earliest technocratic philosopher se si no god renew the compromising st and became good athlete but not this good

but even better known case is that of philip equality born the day deleo and cousin of decay i've seen his signature or el p shows that they got it expired as jane she was guillotine two years later so with place names that awful once our big last weekend after mine on monday a little norman town became so the law properly sealed for the final lines which had reported the game on its capture by the jacksons call mean all the do afro she freed here we have a contemporary for a an allegory of the freeing of your you see here the bad all people being trodden on you see our friend justice with her stables and this young man who is a symbol of new interesting new

analysis custom he has more provinces we call them and not regents which the french goal to not so in french la soul came out it merely means that he is wearing trousers not riches does not mean that he is making below that one jack kemp named his son for the constitution of course we all forms of address this yet and the down side just a feudal superiority semester lady were replaced by citizen susan ness which became public tolerate just the domination comrade in russia the french even what's a five to rename the months some of which july august when they put those would get roman despots julius caesar and augustus and none of which of course were really suggestive a true revolution and virtue the french counter was natural it's months all in the thirty days

each named appropriately for the weather here symbolized of these charming ladies on the spring month it's johnny now the month but it's full of ayoub month the flowers prairie our month of the meadows note by the way that the universe was french named these months so they would be highly inappropriate for the southern hemisphere still my best example of french much a ruthlessness mental of course is they're renaming the queen bee with its hard suggestions of that cabin where a queen the queen bee became naturally the laying be they poor do is they also abolished playing it after all playing cards and kings and queens and worse yet jack which in french is that may one trouble was they couldn't agree on the new guidance selma had the great intellectuals before here on the left and faulty sometimes they had legendary

heroes as lucius several on the left sometimes abstractions that force right and sometimes another whole set takes the virtuous people who do things in this world the gardener the woods won the harvester and so forth so but are the one difficulty is that people never quite knew the value of the tides that ignore their places or do six very few of these new names of course if i did france know after a knockout drop in iran i mean after all she became lines were devastated the russian rage for renaming is concentrated itself very effectively on place names the personal danger sometimes varied from the age all russian tradition of using the state's name followed with a father in say its name n patronymic for yvonne evanovich john jobs for a while and it yeah the telescope being of many me up and mini

sentinel sites name was very popular but from the map of russia all sorts of historic place names of disappeared and i like the french have the most but never being restored for catherine the great was all over the map and to be removed and chris's paine devoto yet definitely the dollar began class no doubt crossley means record yea cathy read book the game's spent last sad laughs was in effect ago bolshevik who had the good luck to die young in nineteen ninety i say good luck because he would've been made mincemeat out later by stalin had the liquor he was a pure electric yeah a cavity this laugh the biggest victim and yet broke that process in place a catheter in the nameless dolly has been spread all over the map of ussr styling got stunning about starting your style leads to even please darling well known russian happen to be voting

heroes has had some effect if you balance honoring molotov and others have taken new names are resumed all this our job i can say in georgia has resumed its boastful original name for ninety five guys meaning ruler of the caucasus in satellite will gary a vibe requests and start again as now being decreased into fire once again but no matter how far the reaction against ali might know i think it would take another revolution movement from the map and especially from styling brought now sacred the russians as the spot where the tide of battle turn in nineteen forty two incidentally one more bit of symbolism spelling got was earlier sorry syn the city for a sob so far as i know there is no italian name for host job

which maybe a small sign that the russian revolution is over but i don't think it'll be quite over until they had founded a daughters of the russian revolution i've always thought the essential moderation of the irish came out in their relatively modest revolutionary renaming king's down queen's diamond your public couldn't of course rick perry things down became do layaway queens down became call but they haven't turned into something which and i'm not a good gimmick sky here as the likely it was a complete failure and i also remember putting up recently at the royal george hotel in limerick i'm sure there are no imperial nicholas of tells left in russia in fact the russians did all it could to destroy memories of the past year is a russian busily at work removing the tsai's another noble arms from silver

pitcher is sugar bowls and so forth one of the most interesting faces of the crisis period of these revolutions is the deliberate effort made by leaders to build up the kind of revolutionary ritual to keep up the spirits of the faithful remind them of the overarching importance of the new life of the revolution hold them together indeed the french jakob to try very hard to destroy the christian religion saw in a hodgepodge of secularist ritual a suitable substitute for surrogate the culvert reason called of the fatherland cult of the supreme being these cults all smell the lamb learning of naive eighteenth century might the most famous of them was celebrated in november seventy ninety three temple of reasons tax which you know better as the cathedral of not that a young woman wife of an advanced jack pritchard

dressed in flowing drapery was a goddess agrees seated upon an empty chair she was born in the former cathedral by for a sturdy service is preceded and followed by troops of young girls dressed in white wrong with roses still others followed in perception when all were there and some suitable against a recent evidence on chalmette he was a kind of combination mayor of paris and district turney gave a reasonable sir that's quoted by the historian t a legislator was has given way to reason it's weird eyes could not enjoy the broonzy of the light this day an immense congo was assembled beneath those gothic waltz which for the first time really echoed the truth that the french are celebrated the only drill was hit by the latter day that a reason where we have formed which is for the

prosperity of the arms of the republic there we have abandoned inanimate idols or reason for the animated image of a masterpiece of mitchell says a charming young woman well i wish i could be more like this with this subject for it lends itself very nicely to illustration i must at least mention the festival of the supreme being witches robber spears own cult which you know to be a happy medium between dangerous atheism like the cold of reason and benighted superstition like christianity and included immortality juno is here in june seventeen it for the month the meadows in the new calendar robert's fear led the procession to the treaty itself gave the sermon and after a non superstitious him put the torch to an artfully made cardboard statue of atheism which was consumed leaving

intact a glorious statue wisdom which had been inside here you see wisdom after the transformation most historians have painted a trifle of the fact that unfortunately it seems in the brain says wisdom seems to have got a somewhat say shh robespierre then delivered another brief clinching simon the whole crowd marched off singing shouting and shooting in the air i guess some of them i suspect slightly elevated from sources other than rubber spears word is the jacket and clubs themselves women for an extraordinary mind ritual much of a curious aping of traditional religious forms the brother and had been brought up the bus editions of classical greek and roman history as currently invented symbol is the whole most in fact let me give an example of each one the most extreme and most not evolving

from catholic practice with a revolutionary sign of the cross in which the new faithful out of words maha macbeth to a money bill de la mosque as he made the familiar just joe by rock you may remember was a jacket that marker stabbed by charlotte coffee day incidentally done these famous painting of mine are dead in his top is the secular jacobin equivalent of a pa pa or dissent from across the but today less familiar to you was also mine now forgotten pretty much he has a remarkable profile i think you'll agree they're also revolutionary catechism was revolutionary ten commandments revolutionary credo is a great deal out some so from ancient history by jakob and friends board a good deal especially they're saints

who's boss sell icons a drawer and they're meeting houses rudeness who killed the pirates easier with a very great favorite but so were stolen you just settle on cincinnati's act is plot here there's another contemporary prick which are actually brings in almost all of these states in the senate now book just died and still here and then franklin very great favorite do you hear is they know it's true a bishop but a man who had written very movingly about human nature and there are other assorted were the kids in the background are you will see the greeks and the romans and above the inevitable show this i repeat as a very common thing in one form or another and of course in this illustration you can see

some of the actual bus this is now often about today and a third miner named shon they are but the body lay saints came of course naturally not franklin and washington stood side by side and fought to rousseau sydney and the others the bolsheviks we're course much more emancipated than the jack ass and i've not found in the russian revolution the same crude but i think that the liberty faked borrowing as i found in the french yet it is easy to draw a religious pals out of marxist ways the writings of marx and engels was certainly a kind of bite used in ways which you have to apply theological terms of irish is a substitute for the christian brother red in red star red flag it the light is an interesting symbol and be with all sorts of frightening overtones

and that involved in the red square in moscow talk about it or talk about it still villages that's what these coming for that not to raise that bill but to find a really live skit been quite novel adaptation of ritual in a sense religious practices in a revolution we must go that suits the nazis didn't have many ideas not much of a theology they did their best to revive the old too tiny gods the worship of blood and blindness of course we all wanted more much but they made up for this great emptiness is a recession so admirably organize the kind you see here indeed meir dagan bavaria became a kind of nazi religious center for law but there are many

other settlers many other reasons the autobahn opened something ad from ford assembly these pictures so many many things that incidentally was the horst wessel song wallace that brings me to a point i think needs emphasis what i call the reins of terror and virtue exact from the commoner man in the street more in the way of sheer attention participation him deep devotion that he is capable of getting four law in time for one thing there is that this crisis phase more than the usual invasion of his privacy you have noted my phrase reign of terror and virtual that there is in part only in part my new as iceland says later an effort to make a virtue prevail universally these

revolutions aren't german moralist reformers indeed i think a non family describe his parents that the puritans with a capital p those are the seventeenth century were puritanical is a proposition we can all take in stride i'm sure i graduate that the puritans were the heart kill joyce the generation of h l mencken made them out to be but the fact is that the puritans did band stage plays gambling dancing in the green party of a simple earthly pleasures indeed in english to talk michael calvin has firmly convinced that most men are senators condemned to hell when asked why then should we worry about their pledges why ban says clearly they could never be saved this divide remarks simply i quote their behavior stakes in the nostrils of the fateful what i mean then isn't that their height revolutions do prevent or tried then and women from indulging in the usual little slices

little relaxation it's pretty ordinary fly she's addicted to such life's pleasures is theater dancing sports games of all sorts of private plane indeed television and most certainly any lovemaking outside district marriage ball is i've always thought of very significant the show matt whose voice you just heard the phrase of the goddess a reason they'd while he was in office what i believe to be the sole thorough going to to ever made to banish prostitution completely from the city of paris he was briefly it's true pretty successful the records of the revolutionary tribunals tell about two former prostitutes in paris probably under the influence of a walk down the street one fine day in seventy nine before shouting viva la la long live the case they were apprehended brought before the tribunals and the law now thoroughly so they insisted that i had met they didn't

really want the monarchy back there were good republicans of heart only they were having some difficulty adjusting themselves to the new regime and business with that in short they repent and would not show the conviction the love at least all the love it be still there were condemned to regulate this is one way revolutions a document protested the bolsheviks least and the christians they were taught to believe that we all ought to get more material goods could not have been pure this stage to announce the bar shakes look forward to a life of material plenty for all there were not other worldly sex but the fact remains that the old bolsheviks where this worldly accepted as austere and dedicated there were at least as unwilling as these other revolutions you accept what the french go the more yard signs you add the ordinary

sense she was neither these materialistic puritans in their early days the power cracked down on what they were guided his typical bourgeois by since they too legislative prostitution away here it's true just before the bolshevik state park is a famous picture and tidal comrades in arms that when his battalion one of them as a college professors daughter the other is an ex prostitute but comrades the bolsheviks corps band capitalist music especially american chess bright clothes private self indulgence is of also to this day russians who first see an american newsstand are horrified by the cheesecake in the gao they're exposed on magazine and paperback comforts here we have a splendid piece of both sides to the kinds of our cat you'll recognize daisy mae a gifted it now to maintain these high standards of

virtue means of course watching carefully for transgressions italy's interfering with the daily round of like just a few concrete examples once more from those jack evans i lived with vicariously so long i quote from the lives of the various clubs citizen x found out his decrepit pride too high especially among the women he proposed therefore to name a committee which should go at once to ladies to hold themselves aloof from the wives of artisans workman and peasants the most honorable of classes and in my dream to have a quality low complained that wives of an equally political refugees to protect their husband's property limited themselves to table saying without remarrying friends of equality in another club member asked why the of love or who was exempted from composer images serve is because of bad eyesight never missed the smallest that were not hunting

my guess is both love hall was inducted into the service shortly after that there's no guarantee it's been well said like the tyranny of your next door neighbor i perhaps and duly emphasize the lighter side of the reins of terror but we're all familiar from the mixture with a cruelties impressions the melodrama the public trials the public shows the hastings all the violence of political life that marks the dour the range of quote these great from hazing to the deficit is the japanese it wrote this decided that only the orthodox revolutionary could wear that new symbol of democratic masculinity the mustache so obviously contrasting smooth famine in cheek of the pundit aristocrats of the old regime member that whole thing joseph show crowd who might erroneously called basil rathbone her they

therefore be prevented blank blank former aristocrat the phone trying to raise a mustache it should be shaved off wants shaver taking good care to use that douglas fraser possible no luck but i think the best concrete illustration of the atmosphere of the farah gumshoe russian power of the nineteen thirty six nineteen thirty nine when as two writers who lived through it said and i quote them no one envied the mandarins of life which they'll having two small suitcases in perpetual reading this one in the office one at a law containing blankets food other things that would be necessary in the event of an arrest the final word about international history though the same effort to make everyone live up to very high standards of contact is not present in these is to draft but social revolutions that is still

true that the record shows the fight to the natives and foreign militias rather more better than ordinary international law in the struggle between the black and tans and the irish republican army in the struggle between the two sides in the polish abandons above all perhaps in the algerian revolution the nineteen fifties there was little protests of observing the chivalrous decent cities there is a piece of the algerian revolt i read from what amounts to a new rebel band held up a thus they spotted among the passengers a european couple the monroe rose schoolteacher his private two months both were escorted out of the bus with the plight of a gunman robbed now you make goes to achieve the two were shocked as they turned to get back into the us rebels having set the bus on its way with the movie tie left the downpayment show a month ago to die by the roadside tea munroe did die before help

arrived there remains the grave problem explaining why the terrorists many of whom are good men behaved as we give them behave to that difficult problem it come in my next or until next time it's big nico the peak this

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