counterrevolutionary
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Historians widely interpret such violence as a counterrevolutionary response to the strength of socialist and labor movements after the First World War.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
But he brings out the idiosyncratic joys of the Mets roster—even its counterrevolutionary cliques.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
“The formula of ‘Sweetback’ was preempted — taken and perverted and watered down and used in a counterrevolutionary way,” he told Interview magazine.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021
This conflation of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary “activity” is precisely the novel’s conceit, playing with the Taoist tradition of paradox.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2021
“He says we are charged under Article 58 of the Soviet Penal Code for counterrevolutionary activities against the USSR,” said Mother.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
In his first term, he aligned with business leaders, conservatives and even former counterrevolutionaries, and against his own former comrades.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2021
Sholokhov met Stalin in 1931 as he was dealing with critics and editors who questioned the ideological purity of the third volume, given its setting among counterrevolutionaries.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2019
In a sign of improved relations, the communist government has given permission for a new house of worship in this remote area, which was a place of exile for counterrevolutionaries after Fidel Castro took power.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2015
When a crowd petitioned to depose King Louis XVI in 1791, the red flag was flown not by the revolutionaries but by the counterrevolutionaries.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2012
Suppose some counterrevolutionaries came along in a truck and said: 'We don't need any passes?'
From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
