revolution

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As we have seen, Trotsky and Lenin had realised that if the revolution was to be a socialist revolution, rather than simply a democratic revolution which at best would issue in a capitalist economy and a parliamentary republic, it must spread to the advanced industrialised countries.

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  1. noun Orbital motion about a point, especially as distinguished from axial rotation: the planetary revolution about the sun.
  2. noun A turning or rotational motion about an axis.
  3. noun A single complete cycle of such orbital or axial motion.
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  1. Middle English revolucioun, from Old French revolution, from Late Latin revolūtiō, revolūtiōn-, from Latin revolūtus, past participle of revolvere, to turn over; see revolve.

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  1. from Middle English reuolucion, from Old French revolution, French révolution = Provencal rvolucio = Spanish revolucion = Portuguese revolução = Italian rivoluzione, revoluzione = Dutch revolutie = G. Swedish Danish revolution, from Late Latin revolutio(n-), a revolving, from Latin revolvere, past participle revolutus, revolve, turn over: see revolve.
 

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/rɛvəˈljuʃən/
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