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US
/ˌkaʊntɝɹɛvəˈɫuʃən/
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NOUN
- a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution
How To Use counterrevolution In A Sentence
- The counterrevolution is a rotting worm (applause). CASTRO RADIO AND TV INTERVIEW
- In addition to incitements and urgings from these right-wing political and mainstream media morons, there also came - and still are coming - the claims from the weirdest and dankest holes in the blogosphere, the deep rat warrens where readers of Newsmax, NewsBusters and other collections of neo-Nazi rants, can come together to rub vigorously each other's, um, reptilian fears and stroke each other's faux bravery as they plot their "counterrevolutionary" tactics and strategies. Mike Malloy: Poison
- On 10 June the Convention passed the Law of 22 Prairial, written by Couthon and Robespierre, greatly accelerating the Terror by streamlining the process by which suspected counterrevolutionaries were tried and (nearly always) convicted before the Revolutionary Tribunal. Annotations
- Distinctions can be made between reformist, unificatory, and secessionist types, between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary forms, between successive liberal and conservative variants, and between European and colonial manifestations of nationalism.
- It was a “three-cornered struggle” with Russian revolutionaries against counterrevolutionaries and national minorities resisting both.20 And this shorthand leaves out a fourth corner, that of the Black Army led by the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno.21 This stew of hostilities is typical of civil wars. Bloodlust
- The struggle against the counterrevolution or in the face of the counterrevolution -- this way in order not to sound repetitious, that is two times against -- is a struggle that will last a long time, and the struggle against crime and antisocial activities will also last many years. 10TH ANNIVERSARY-INTERIOR MINISTRY
- And while the various revolutionary forces, the truly revolutionary forces, have culminated in what is seen now arising as a powerful political vanguard of the nation, a formidable proletarian Marxist-Leninist Party, (applause) today the counterrevolution is a fractionization of some 500 organizations. GRADUATION EXERCISES
- This is a counterrevolutionary organization, with a long history of gangsterism and thuggery against any and all left-wing political opponents.
- We always call counterrevolutionary criminals by the name of counterrevolutionary criminals. 4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY
- What were the processes and techniques of this counterrevolution against privilege?