The phrase "abortive revolution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a revolution that fails to achieve its intended goals or outcomes.
Example: "The 1848 revolutions across Europe were often seen as an abortive revolution, as they ultimately did not lead to the desired political changes."
Alternatives: "failed uprising" or "unsuccessful revolt".
After the abortive revolution, Frederick Augustus became less and less active in the government of his state.
In the period of reaction following the abortive revolution, he traveled to Switzerland, to the World's Fair in Paris in 1855, and to the Orient in 1856.
If there is further trouble around the polls – or on January the 25th, the third anniversary of Egypt's abortive revolution – the country's cells will continue to swell.
After the abortive revolutions of 1848, Hapsburg rule slowly crumbled and the linguistic strictures were gradually lifted.
He cited pro-American demonstrators in Libya, and the abortive Green revolution on Iran, during which, he said, Mr Obama was silent.
As a student at the University of Bonn, Schurz participated in the abortive German revolution of 1848, was imprisoned, escaped, and eventually came to the United States (1852).
Despite the bloody failure of the Paris Commune (1871) and the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, the spectre remained real and present until the USSR crumbled.
His production of Toller, Tankred Dorst's play about a poet caught up in the abortive German revolution in 1919, touched the nerve of the age and provoked widespread public debate.
His greatest novel, Fata morgana (1904 10), represented a new approach to the traditional theme of social conflict in a small village; subsequent work used the abortive 1905 revolution as the background for psychological investigations of men at the extremity of emotional experience.
They included veterans of previous movements, such as the abortive people-power revolution of 1988.
He was the ideologue of the abortive 1848 Moldavian revolution, authoring its main document, Dorințele partidei naționale din Moldova.
