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- noun a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
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The Communist press accused him of having treacherously opened the southern front to Denikin, and branded Makhno's army a bandit gang and its leader a counterrevolutionist who must be destroyed at all cost.
My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923
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