counter-revolutionist

• “One of their first victims was an aged nun of the Simiane family, canoness of the convent of Bollene, accused of being a counter-revolutionist; so lame and infirm, that her executioners were forced to carry her to the scaffold.”

  Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819

• “France; that he found himself seconded in this plan of destruction by thousands of hands and voices; that one citizen was executed for supplying the wounded with provisions, another for extinguishing a fire in his own house; and that when these pretexts failed, such ridiculous names as "quadruple" and "quintuple counter-revolutionist" were invented as terms of accusation.”

  Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819

• “The lad turned on his father and said, "Yes; you are an enemy of the Russian State; you are a counter-revolutionist; you are a hang-over from the old capitalistic regime; you don't produce anything.”

  The Five Year Plan—Russia's Challenge to Capitalism

• “But this "counter-revolutionist" fully realized the Denikin menace to the Revolution.”

  My Disillusionment in Russia

• “The Communists, on the other hand, were unanimous in defending the peace and denouncing as counter-revolutionist everybody who questioned the wisdom and the revolutionary justification of that agreement.”

  My Disillusionment in Russia

• “He continued his warfare against the Soviets and was considered a dangerous counter-revolutionist.”

  My Disillusionment in Russia

• “He desired to have it widely understood that he was not the bandit, Jew-baiter, and counter-revolutionist the Bolsheviki had proclaimed him.”

  My Disillusionment in Russia

• “I went up to the counter-revolutionist Kornilovitz who sat in the president’s chair.”

  Chapter 4. The Fall of the Provisional Government

• “Following Goujet's advice she countenanced the deeds of Mlle. de Cinq-Cygne, the bold, dashing counter-revolutionist of Arcis during 1803 and succeeding years.”

  Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1

• “He preserved a firm and well-devised conduct, equi-distant from the throne and the people, from the counter-revolutionist and the malcontent, ready to go with the opinion of the court or of the nation, according as events might transpire.”

  History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution

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