orgy of denunciations

There was a positive orgy of denunciations, more than 350,000 of which were received by the authorities within the first fortnight of June. As was to happen again after the liberation of France in 1944, many denunciations proved to have a lamentable element of personal revenge. - pg 414, The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne

книга исключительно занудная и бестолковая, только в последней главе, The Aftermath, он немного оживился.

To Lenin and his followers, the supreme lesson of the Commune was that the only way to succeed was by total ruthlessness.
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When on the eve of success he was forced to flee briefly to Finland, Marx's The Civil War in France was one of the two books he took with him on his final exile. - pg 432, Ibid.

добавлю от себя, что кроме personal revenge, обычно есть еще один lamentable element: material gain.