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

Seeing her, Aijun recalls the chairman’s superficially feminist dictum that “women hold up half the sky,” but tweaks its original meaning, as he will frequently do throughout the novel when faced with counterrevolutionary impulses.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2021

“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