velvet revolution
noun
- a non-violent political revolution, especially the relatively smooth change from Communism to a Western-style democracy in Czechoslovakia at the end of 1989天鹅绒革命, 非暴力政治革命(尤指1989年末捷克斯洛伐克由共产主义转成西方民主主义的变革)。
词源
translating Czech sametová revoluce