Chiang then succeeded Chen as leader of the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Shanghai.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution that brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik movement to power in Russia, as Mussolini himself desired a revolution in Italy to bring the Fascists to power.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution, however Mussolini later became unimpressed with Lenin, regarding him as merely a new version of Tsar Nicholas.

Hawks's next two films at MGM were the boxing drama The Prizefighter and the Lady and the bio-pic Viva Villa !, starring Wallace Beery as Mexican Revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.

A prominent example was Anahita Ratebzad, who was a major Marxist leader and a member of the Revolutionary Council.

* 1759 – Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader ( d. 1794 )

Charles Taylor — then leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia — reportedly helped form the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) under the command of former Sierra Leonean army corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh, an ethnic Temne from Tonkolili District in Northern Sierra Leone.

:* 1969-1991: Siad Barre, leader of the Supreme Revolutionary Council, rises to power.

On January 12, 1964, the African majority revolted against the sultan and a new government was formed with the ASP leader, Abeid Karume, as President of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council.

* February 13 – George Rogers Clark, American Revolutionary leader ( b. 1752 )

* January 6 – Louis d ' Elbée, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1752 )

* January 28 – Henri de la Rochejaquelein, French Revolutionary leader ( b. 1772 )

* March 24 – Jacques Hébert, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1757 )

** Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1759 )

** Camille Desmoulins, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1760 )

** Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1759 )

** François Joseph Westermann, French Revolutionary leader and general ( executed )

** Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1763 )

* June 17 – Marguerite-Élie Guadet, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1753 )

** François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader ( suicide ) ( b. 1760 )

** Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1758 )

** Augustin Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1763 )

** Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1767 )

** François Hanriot, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1761 )

* November 16 – Jean-Baptiste Carrier, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1756 )

Its leaders were inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini, and its forces were trained and organized by a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Based at Baalbek in the Beqaa valley, the group aligned 200 Lebanese Shiite militants financed by Iran and trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards ’ contingent previously sent by Ayatollah Khomeini to fight the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

On February 24, 1979, however, Khalkhali was chosen by Ayatollah Khomeini to be the Sharia ruler ( حاکم شرع in Persian ) or head the newly established Revolutionary Courts, and to make Islamic rulings.

Abdollah Nouri has been called a " trusted lieutenant " of Ayatollah Khomeini who was " the religious guide to the Revolutionary Guards early in the revolution.

They publicly opposed the secret trials and the summary executions carried out by the Revolutionary Courts, led by Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhaali.

Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, recently returned to Iran, appointed Bazargan as Prime Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government.

According to some accounts, the Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the Islamic Revolutionary Guards to fire into the crowd and more than 100 demonstrators were killed.

Inevitably, the overlapping authority of the Revolutionary Council ( which had the power to pass laws ) and Bazargan's government was a source of conflict, despite the fact that both had been approved by and / or put in place by Khomeini.

The Revolutionary Guard, or Pasdaran-e Enqelab, was established by Khomeini on May 5, 1979 as a counterweight both to the armed groups of the left, and to the Shah's military.

During this time, Montazeri also served as Friday prayer leader of Qom, as a member of the Revolutionary Council and as deputy to Supreme Leader Khomeini.

Its leaders were inspired by the ayatollah Khomeini, and its forces were trained and organized by a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Bani Sadr, one among many leaders of the Provisional Revolutionary Government who advocated a public trial, states that only Khomeini himself had the authority to make such an order.

Before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, he was appointed by Khomeini to the Revolutionary Council and later took up various political and religious positions.

Asia Times reports that Ahmad Tavassoli, a former chief of staff of Khomeini, claimed in 2005 that " the executive branch of the Iranian government as well as the crack troops of the Revolutionary Guards have been hijacked by the Hojjatieh, which, he implied, now also controls Ahmadinejad.

Four principal left-wing guerrilla groups — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ( EGP ), the Revolutionary Organization of Armed People ( ORPA ), the Rebel Armed Forces ( FAR ), and the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) — conducted economic sabotage and targeted government installations and members of government security forces in armed attacks.

In 1951 the ICP was reorganized into three national units — the Vietnam Workers ' Party, the Lao Itsala, and the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ).

During the Russian Revolution, anarchists such as Nestor Makhno worked to create and defend — through the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine — anarchist communism in the Free Territory of the Ukraine from 1919 before being conquered by the Bolsheviks in 1921.

During the Russian Revolution, anarchists such as Nestor Makhno worked to create and defend — through the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine — anarchist communism in the Free Territory of the Ukraine from 1919 before being conquered by the Bolsheviks in 1921.

* Lexington ( United States ) — named for Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

* To resolve the issue of the fiat currency, issued by the Continental Congress immediately prior to and during the United States Revolutionary War — the " Continental ".

As president of the Council of Five Hundred — which he removed to the suburban security of Saint-Cloud — Lucien Bonaparte's combination of bravado and disinformation was crucial to the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire ( date based on the French Revolutionary Calendar ) in which General Bonaparte overthrew the government of the Directory to replace it by the Consulate.

Currently Raúl Castro — brother of former President Fidel Castro — is President of the Council of State, President of the Council of Ministers ( sometimes referred to as the Prime Minister ), First Secretary of the Communist Party, and Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

Access to the river was the subject of the brief 1784 Kettle War, and — in the French Revolutionary era shortly afterwards — the river was reopened in 1792.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, PRI ) is a Mexican political party that held power in the country — under a succession of names — for 71 years.

During the American Revolutionary War two units of troops of the Continental Army — Bedel's Regiment and Whitcomb's Rangers — were raised from the settlers of Coös.

Men from the town participated in the French and Indian War of the 1760s — some marched as far as the siege of Montreal — but it was the Revolutionary War that garnered the town ’ s enthusiasm.

The most popular — though probably mythical — story regarding the reason the area was named Liberty was put forth by Mrs. Annie Craig in 1936: “ At the close of the Revolutionary war a religious meeting was being held at a church close to a spring near the present town of Liberty when the word came that Cornwallis had surrendered and the colonies had gained their independence.