revanchism

  • 81Liberal Democratic Party of Russia — (LDPR)    Political party. Known in Russian as Liberal’ no Demokraticheskaia Partiia Rossii. Established in December 1989 as the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU), the LDPR has been led by the eccentric, and often unpredictable …

    Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

  • 82feud — Synonyms and related words: acrimony, adverse possession, alodium, altercate, altercation, animosity, animus, antagonism, argument, avengement, bad blood, battle, bicker, bickering, bitter feeling, bitterness, blood feud, box, brawl, broil,… …

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  • 83reprisal — Synonyms and related words: amends, avengement, avenging, blood feud, comeuppance, compensation, counterblow, desert, deserts, feud, getting even, indemnification, indemnity, just deserts, punishment, quittance, recompense, redress, repayment,… …

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  • 84retaliation — Synonyms and related words: alternation, amends, atonement, avengement, avenging, balancing, battledore and shuttlecock, blood feud, blow for blow, commutation, compensation, cooperation, correction, counteraction, counterbalancing, counterblow,… …

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  • 85vendetta — Synonyms and related words: acrimony, altercation, animosity, animus, argument, avengement, bad blood, bicker, bitter feeling, bitterness, blood feud, brawl, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair,… …

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  • 86vengeance — Synonyms and related words: avengement, avenging, blood feud, counterblow, energetically, enthusiastically, ferociously, feud, fiercely, forcefully, furiously, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, return,… …

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  • 87Franco-Prussian War —    The underlying causes for this war (1870 71), lost by France to the German states under the leadership of Prussia, was the determination of the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck to unify Germany under Prussian control (and also to eliminate …

    France. A reference guide from Renaissance to the Present

  • 88РЕВАНШИЗМ — (от фр. revanche возмездие) англ. revanchism; нем. Revanchismus. Политика, направленная на восстановление утраченных во время войны позиций …

    Толковый словарь по социологии

  • 89Franco-Prussian War — (1870–1871)    The final and most significant of the wars of German unification, the Franco Prussian War lasted from July 19, 1870, to May 10, 1871. It pitted France against Prussia and its allies, which included the states of the North German… …

    Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

  • 90revanche —    (reu VANHSH) [French: revenge] The policy of a state determined to reoccupy lands or territory lost to another state through war; the political policy of revenge for a previous military defeat. Also called revanchism (reu VANH shizm). One who… …

    Dictionary of foreign words and phrases