A counter-revolutionary or an anti-revolutionary is anyone who opposes or resists a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution has occurred, in order to try to overturn it or reverse its course, in full or in part. The adjective "counter-revolutionary" pertains to movements that would restore the state of affairs or the principles that prevailed during a pre-revolutionary era.
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Suppression of the Kronstadt mutiny. Soldiers of the Red Army attack the island fortress of Kronstad...
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Mort de Mermet, lors de la bataille de Fréligné, le 15 septembre 1794.