How, in that case, is the imperceptible, " gradual, " bourgeois counterrevolution conceivable?
The working class and the Communist Party were confronted not only by internal counterrevolution, but the intervention of 14 foreign armies.
Such a course reduces the chances of violent counterrevolution to the barest minimum.
So early as April 1819, at Göttingen, he had fallen under the influence of Karl Ludwig von Haller's Handbuch der allgemeinen Staatenkunde (1808), a text-book of the counterRevolution.
He soon, however, returned to Bulgaria, owing to the success of the counterrevolution led by Stamboloff, which overthrew the provisional government set up by the Russian party at Sofia.