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counter-revolution
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counter-revolution [ˌkaʊntəˌrɛvəˈluːʃən]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a revolution opposed to a previous revolution and aimed at reversing its effects
counter-revolutionist  n
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counter-revolution [ˈkaʊntərevəˈluːʃən] Ncontrarrevolución f
counter-revolution [ˌkaʊntəˌrɛvəˈluːʃn] ncontrorivoluzione f


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The Terror was not an inevitable outcome of revolution, he argues, but was the result of dogmatic and fundamentalist thinking and dreadful decisions by a group of people whose survival was threatened by famine, external war, and counter-revolutionaries.
The first counter-revolutionaries were fierce partisans of the European Old Regime who denounced any reliance upon individual reason or appeals to consent within the political realm.
Nicaragua had known since January 1985 that the United States was training counter-revolutionaries at the Las Vegas camp in Honduras in the use of SAM-7 missiles.
 
 
 
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