A revolution is not necessarily progessive. It may very well be regressive, in deliberate reaction to progressive movements of the time or to reforms enacted by the government.

James H. Meisel (1900-1991) German-American political scientist, author
Counter-Revolution: How Revolutions Die, ch. 1 (1966)

 
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