#it amuses me to refer to the architects/partisans of the og reign of terror as 'The Terrorists' like a proper noun

[st-just]

I would say your problematic fave is the archangel of terror.

'the Angel of Death' was the better title imo.

Anyway depending on how you're defining 'high modernism' the death toll is somewhere between 1 an 3 orders of magnitude beyond anything the Terrorists ever accomplished. so eh, agree to disagree.