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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, royalists have attempted counterrevolutions against bourgeois revolutions like the French Revolution. In recent times, the West has supported and instigated "color revolutions" in socialist states to expand their own interests.
List of counterrevolutions[edit | edit source]
Pro-slavery[edit | edit source]
- Texas Rebellion (1835–1836)
- Southern forces in the Statesian Civil War (1860–1865, failed)
Feudal[edit | edit source]
- Stuart Restoration (1660)
- Bourbon Restoration (1814–1815)
Bourgeois[edit | edit source]
- White movement (1917–1923)
- Finnish White Terror (1918)
- Hungarian White Terror (1919–1921)
- Hungarian counterrevolution (1956, failed)
- Prague Spring (1968, failed)
- Tian'anmen Square riots (1989, failed)
- Velvet Counterrevolution (1989)
- Romanian Counterrevolution (1989)
- Annexation of East Germany (1990)
- Overthrow of the Soviet Union (1991)