counterrevolutionary
Example Sentences
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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
But he brings out the idiosyncratic joys of the Mets roster—even its counterrevolutionary cliques.
More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their “counterrevolutionary formalist methods.”
From New York Times
For six of those years, he was persecuted as a counterrevolutionary.
From New York Times
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
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