A revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution

Usage examples of counterrevolution.

There are counterrevolution aries plotting to overthrow the regime and restore the monarchy and he goes to their meetings.

According to Jack, he had been seen in one place, heard of in another, was reported to be riding south, then north, then west to the Vendee where there were other counterrevolution aries.

When, the week before Christmas, they learned that a French army officer named Napoleon Bonaparte had recaptured Toulon, that all foreign invaders had been forced to retreat from French soil and all counterrevolution suppressed, even the Countess admitted she had given up hope of seeing her son again.

History is governed by only two principles: the State and social revolution, revolution and counterrevolution, which can never be reconciled, and which are engaged in a death struggle.

If history is, in fact, independent of all principles and composed only of a struggle between revolution and counterrevolution, there is no way out but to espouse wholeheartedly one of the two and either die or be resurrected.

Chekist, fighting alongside Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky when he created the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage.

The KGB chairman, Kryuchkov, was reported to have assembled his lieutenants in a Lubyanka conference room and given them an ultimatum: Crush the counterrevolution within twenty-four hours.

The administrators of the law became one of the centers of the counterrevolution, perverting justice for reactionary political ends.

But certain difficulties lay in his way if he were himself to lead the counterrevolution, and he was not much interested in it unless he was.

He did not want Ludendorff as the political leader of the nationalist counterrevolution, a role which it was known the war hero was ambitious to assume.

Socialism in one country, the filthiness of the Purges - the point of counterrevolution being reached - and the Fascist invasion saving Stalin from what he deserved at the hands of the people.

The counterrevolutions of fascism only serve to reinforce the general argument.

The French sought to make a master-stroke at immediate achievement and they incurred counterrevolutions and delays.

And he'd have known that the first city to elect a Union Labor Party government was hardly the place to start a counterrevolution.