Editing Thermidor (section)

== Thermidor in revolution ==

The [[Thermidorian Reaction]], '''Revolution of Thermidor''', or simply '''Thermidor''' refers to the coup of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) in which the Committee of Public Safety led by [[Maximilien Robespierre]] was sidelined and its leaders arrested and [[guillotine]]d, resulting in the end of the [[Reign of Terror]]. The new regime, known as [[The Directory]], introduced more conservative policies aimed at stabilizing the revolutionary government.

Consequently, for historians of revolutionary movements, the term ''Thermidor'' has come to mean the phase in some revolutions when the political pendulum swings back towards something resembling a pre-revolutionary state, and power slips from the hands of the original revolutionary leadership. [[Leon Trotsky]], in his book ''[[The Revolution Betrayed]]'', refers to the rise of [[Joseph Stalin]] and the accompanying post-revolutionary bureaucracy as the "Soviet Thermidor".