Original sentence: Schama's view of the Revolution as an event possessing ideological undercurrents that shaped much of the events of the 1790s has been criticised in recent years.Tackett argues that "any explanation of how the liberal, humanitarian revolution of 1789 was transformed into the Terror of 1793-94 would have to take into account a variety of factors: the state of war existing between France and much of Europe; the organized efforts of dissident opponents to launch a counterrevolution; the terrible factionalism that beset the revolutionary leaders themselves; and the emergence of an obsessive fear of conspiracy -- real or imagined -- that helped fuel the factionalism and justify popular violence.Tackett claims that to argue, as did Schama, that the Enlightenment principles espoused in 1789 somehow prefigured or foreshadowed 1793 and 1794 is to ignore the major circumstantial factors of this period, such as international war, counter-revolution and of course the flight of the king
Edited sentence: Schama's view of the Revolution as an event possessing ideological undercurrents that shaped much of the events of the 1790s has been undermined in recent years.To argue as did Schama that the Enlightenment principles espoused in 1789 somehow prefigured or foreshadowed 1793 and 1794 is to ignore the major circumstantial factors of this period, such as international war, counter-revolution and of course the flight of the king.Writes Tackett, "Any explanation of how the liberal, humanitarian revolution of 1789 was transformed into the Terror of 1793-94 would have to take into account a variety of factors:  the state of war existing between France and much of Europe; the organized efforts of dissident opponents to launch a counterrevolution; the terrible factionalism that beset the revolutionary leaders themselves; and the emergence of an obsessive fear of conspiracy -- real or imagined -- that helped fuel the factionalism and justify popular violence