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Robespierre Monument

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31: 277: 249:, there were few materials available to make the statue. Lacking bronze or marble, the monument was instead constructed using concrete, with hollow pipes running through it. This design proved frail, lasting only a few days. On the morning of 7 November only a pile of rubble remained. Over the following days different newspapers supplied varying versions as to why it collapsed, with 960: 955: 950: 161: 843: 965: 47: 392:
Schoenfeld, Gabriel (1995). "25. Uses of the Past: Bolshevism and the French Revolutionary Tradition". In Schwab, Gail M.; Jeanneney, John R. (eds.).
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The Robespierre Monument being unveiled on 3 November 1918, three days prior to its destruction
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stating the statue's demise was caused by improper construction.
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55°45′13″N 37°36′54″E / 55.7537°N 37.6149°E / 55.7537; 37.6149
Russian
romanized
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
October Revolution
Bolsheviks
Maximilien de Robespierre
French Revolution
Alexander Garden
Russian
romanized
monumental propaganda
Vladimir Lenin
avant la lettre
French
Georges Danton
François-Noël Babeuf
Jean-Paul Marat
Russian Civil War
war communism
Znamya Trudovoi Kommuny
counter-revolutionary
Izvestia
Soviet Union portal
History of Moscow
Reign of Terror
Soviet art

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