Counter-revolution

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Russian émigré anti-Bolshevik poster, circa 1932.

A counter-revolution is the reactionary reversal of the gains made by a social revolution to the extent of its complete negation. Counter-revolutions commonly entail the restoration of the mode of production and corresponding state form which was overthrown, e.g. feudalism in the case of bourgeois revolution and capitalism in the case of socialist revolution.

A person who engages in counter-revolution is known as a counter-revolutionary.