counterrevolutionary

The victims of that era include the Gaos’ father, who was detained as a counterrevolutionary and died in custody.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

He took exception to the A.N.C.’s characterization of Mr. Zuma as a counterrevolutionary, or someone who attempts to subvert the efforts of lifting Black people out of apartheid-era disparities.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

The charges were similarly absurd, that he had been a member of a counterrevolutionary organization and sabotaged the collective farm’s work.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022

“He might have confessed he visited us. Maybe that’s what they meant when they said they already had the information. They could say we were establishing counterrevolutionary ties.”

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

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