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Definition of counter-revolution in English: counter-revolutionnounˌkaʊntəˌrɛvəˈluːʃ(ə)n A revolution opposing a former one or reversing its results. 反革命 the monarch plans to put himself at the head of the enemies of the revolution to attempt a counter-revolution mass noun the threat of successful counter-revolution Example sentencesExamples - While the personal and sexual relationships that derived from this situation infuriated German and Austrian men, it took a while for them to launch their sexual counter-revolution.
- But as events played out the revolution failed and the counter-revolution soon set in.
- With the declaration from Stalin that socialism was possible in one country, the counter-revolution began.
- The big event that shifted the way the media works was the Thatcher counter-revolution.
- The monarch plans to put himself at the head of the enemies of the revolution to attempt a counter-revolution.
- In the name of ‘socialist construction’, Stalin led a counter-revolution from above.
- During the 1920s and 30s, fascism rose to power in a Europe convulsed by world war and civil war, revolution and counter-revolution, general strikes and mass street battles between right and left.
- The revolutionary opportunity was lost, and counter-revolution gained the upper hand.
- We have witnessed revolutions and counter-revolutions, both political and cultural.
- Then, in the closing decades of the twentieth century, a counter-revolution swept the world, pushing for just the opposite: disperse capital as widely as possible by getting everybody involved as owners.
- First, a counter-revolution, loyal to Church and King, was led by the nobles and the clergy and supported by staunch Catholic peasants.
- In the dark days of the 1960s, however, it was a call to arms for a free-enterprise counter-revolution against state corporatism and sleepy managerialism.
- At Blackpool yesterday, the shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin, promised a radical counter-revolution against this creeping centralisation.
- The woman who led the capitalist counter-revolution in Poland is to address an international business convention near Harrogate.
- The ‘punk revolution’ was in fact a conservative, throwback counter-revolution - an intentional try to drive the music back, not just to its roots, but to its primitive roots.
- Fearing counter-revolution, the sans-culottes destroyed prisons because they believed they were secretly sheltering conspirators.
- The reason why volunteers were needed in that year was that the French Revolution of 1789 had not gained universal support and there were attempted counter-revolutions in parts of France.
- Marx also saw that to be successful the workers' revolution had to be able to defend itself against counter-revolution by capitalist and reactionary forces.
- The English then sensibly carried out a conservative counter-revolution, restoring the monarchy and ushering in three centuries of gradual and prosperous transition to democratic liberty.
- The call for a coup by 14 top army officers on 22 October has thrown into relief the clear choice of two roads in this country, towards revolution or towards counter-revolution.
Synonyms conservatism, ultra-conservatism, the right, the right wing, the extreme right
Rhymesablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution |