prerevolutionary

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In a radically transformed political landscape, however, revolts and revolutions eventually emerged that challenged the last remnants of the prerevolutionary status quo.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The title alone, from a love lyric by the prerevolutionary poet Forugh Farrokhzad that Behzad recites, suggests the irrepressible beauty of playtime.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2014

We're offered a vivid portrait of a society in a state of prerevolutionary chaos, and that emerges strongly from Upton's free adaptation.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013

If you avert your gaze from an ugly new shopping center, you can imagine a scene from a novel about provincial prerevolutionary Russia.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2012

At Krang Truop, Uncle Leang’s family is considered to be a base family because they have lived in the same village since the prerevolutionary days.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung