post-Revolutionary
Britishadjective
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Along the way, their own government would be toppled in mass demonstrations, and replaced with a new post-revolutionary caretaker government.
What I learned from my professors of post-revolutionary Russian history, however, is that Trotsky advocated a policy known as “permanent revolution,” which meant spreading a culture of Marxism from the Soviet Union to other countries; this was a counterweight to Stalin’s ideology of “socialism in one country,” which was Stalin’s way of chickening out on conflict with countries outside the USSR.
From Los Angeles Times
For now, they conspire to rule over a fractious post-revolutionary France, and also to transform this lavish palatial drama and sinewy war epic into a veritable anti-romantic comedy.
From Los Angeles Times
But I initially missed her 2020 book, “In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico” — an oversight I have happily been remedying this week.
From New York Times
The president’s crackdown on post-revolutionary gains has gone beyond free speech.
From New York Times
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