counter-revolution in English

noun
1
a revolution opposing a former one or reversing its results.

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1. (ThinkQuest, n.d.) The Cheka was a russian acronym for "All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage."

2. 28 The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find - dismaying though that may be for party propagandists.

3. It is from this Bahutu point of view that 1959 looks like a revolution, and 1994 must look like a counter-revolution.

4. The indigenous people of the Atlantic region, who were the main instrument of the counter-revolution, fiercely opposed the Sandinist authorities, rejecting the Sandinist Government's agrarian policy and demanding autonomy

5. The Cheka stems from the full name in Russian: The All Russian Emergency Commission for Combatting Counter-Revolution and Sabotage.** Cheka’s focus was “defending the revolution by removing defectors” [4]

6. The Cheka stems from the full name in Russian: The All Russian Emergency Commission for Combatting Counter-Revolution and Sabotage.** Cheka’s focus was “defending the revolution by removing defectors” [4]

7. The atrocities committed in the province of Adana in April 1909 coincided with the counter-revolution staged by supporters of Sultan Abdul Hamid (Abdulhamit) II (1876-1909) who had been forced to restore the Ottoman Constitution as a result of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution led by

8. Marx notably utilized the imagery of Anthropophagism and lycanthropy, proferring phrases like “the cannibalism of counter-revolution” and “the werewolf’s hunger for surplus labor.” Had he lived in a later period, it is not difficult to imagine Marx using a different metaphor for capital that could have superseded all three of these