Counterrevolution Definition

kountər-rĕvə-lo͝oshən
counter-revolution
noun
A political movement or revolution against a government or social system set up by a previous revolution.
Webster's New World
A movement to combat revolutionary tendencies.
Webster's New World

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Noun

Singular:
counterrevolution
Plural:
counterrevolutions

Counterrevolution Sentence Examples

  • How, in that case, is the imperceptible, " gradual, " bourgeois counterrevolution conceivable?

  • The working class and the Communist Party were confronted not only by internal counterrevolution, but the intervention of 14 foreign armies.

  • Such a course reduces the chances of violent counterrevolution to the barest minimum.

  • So early as April 1819, at Göttingen, he had fallen under the influence of Karl Ludwig von Haller's Handbuch der allgemeinen Staatenkunde (1808), a text-book of the counterRevolution.

  • He soon, however, returned to Bulgaria, owing to the success of the counterrevolution led by Stamboloff, which overthrew the provisional government set up by the Russian party at Sofia.

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