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By the mid-1970s collectivist policies and the constraints on government they represented were so deeply entrenched that a virtual counter-revolution was required.
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Once again, the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head.
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Part of Irina Volkova would believe in a cross that might cause people to rise up and start a counter-revolution .
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So the Thatcherite counter-revolution has redefined the idea of justice.
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Talk of revolution and counter-revolution has been banned from the rhetoric of the moment.
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The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find - dismaying though that may be for party propagandists.
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Two revolutions and a counter-revolution , then.
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Unusually, there is no counter-revolution to the women's movement.