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The revolution—and counterrevolutions across Europe—would speed the formation of nation-states in the nineteenth century.
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Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Elie’s masterful survey is a group portrait of artists and their fellow travelers who participated during a bloody crossroads in American life, when Ronald Reagan’s ascension to the White House in 1980 collapsed the walls between church and state, sparking a counterrevolution across the arts.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
Of course, abrupt revolutions or counterrevolutions are a recurrent theme of history.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 8 May 2025
This counterrevolution also overturned social balances established at the founding.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Elie’s masterful survey is a group portrait of artists and their fellow travelers who participated during a bloody crossroads in American life, when Ronald Reagan’s ascension to the White House in 1980 collapsed the walls between church and state, sparking a counterrevolution across the arts.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
Of course, abrupt revolutions or counterrevolutions are a recurrent theme of history.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 8 May 2025
This counterrevolution also overturned social balances established at the founding.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterrevolution
counterinsurgency
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Ambriz has built a small army of foreign mercenaries, mostly former soldiers from Colombia who have experience in bomb-making and counterinsurgency tactics.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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Through his writings about the French colonial war in Algeria, their man on the spot Roger Trinquier shaped US counterinsurgency strategy in the Vietnam War, particularly for the CIA.—
Alfred McCoy,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Counterrevolution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterrevolution. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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