 The failed coup of July 1936 set loose a violent onslaught on those that revolutionaries in the Republican zone identified as enemies; "where the rebellion failed, for several months afterwards merely to be identified as a priest, a religious or simply a militant Christian or member of some apostolic or pious organization, was enough for a person to be executed without trial".Some estimates of the Red Terror range from 38,000 to ~72,344 lives.Paul Preston put the figure at a little under 50,000.