terror
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policy of political repression and violence against opponents
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Victims of the Red Terror in Crimea, 1918
Terror (from French terreur, from Latin terror "great fear", terrere "to frighten") is a policy of political repression and political violence intended to subdue political opposition. The term first appears in the Reign of Terror, a revolutionary violence during the French Revolution, which also gave rise to the term terrorism.
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