Before the First World War, most of Europe was ruled by monarchs related to George, but during and after the war, the monarchies of Austria, Germany, Greece, and Spain, like Russia, fell to revolution and war.
Both predictions came true – Mubarak's regime fell, and revolutions spread across the Arab world.
If and when it falls, the revolution may be over.
Our youth revolution fell short; may yours be realized.
Though their revolution fell apart and though their punishment was a humiliation and a waste, the Decembrists were inspiring nonetheless.
They plotted a revolution, fell to debating among themselves, and in the end overturned very little except their own expectations.
She fell for the revolution, if not for its effect, for the impulse that had created it.
Any British notion that the Communists were poised for revolution fell within the context of the so-called Percentages Agreement, forged between Churchill and Soviet Commissar Josef Stalin at the code-named "Tolstoy Conference" in Moscow on 9 October 1944.
1936 Trotsky's Lieutenant Executed Gregory Zinoviev, one of the principal "makers" of the Soviet State and Leon Trotsky's lieutenant as promoter of world revolution, fell under a shower of bullets fired by Soviet soldiers in the courtyard of the Ogpu (secret police) headquarters here at 6 o'clock this morning [Aug. 25].
As the last dynasty fell in the revolution of 1911, and the republic that succeeded it splintered into warlord regimes, Lu Xun holed up (with more than a touch of Gothic self-pity) in a haunted courtyard apartment in Beijing, perusing antiquarian books, editing classical texts, reconstructing ancient tombstone inscriptions.
