A counterrevolution is an opposing revolution that attempts to reverse a revolution. A person or group who opposes a revolution is declared counter-revolutionary. In Marxist theory, counterrevolutions are a reactionary force usually composed of bourgeois forces. In the past, feudal lords also attempted counterrevolutions against bourgeois revolutions like the French Revolution.
List of counterrevolutions
Feudal
- Stuart Restoration (1660)
- Bourbon Restoration (1814–1815)
Bourgeois
- Finnish White Terror (1918)
- Hungarian White Terror (1919–1921)
- Tian'anmen Square riots (1989; failed)
- Overthrow of the Soviet Union (1991)