colour revolution

English

Alternative forms

• color revolution

Etymology

These movements often adopted a specific colour as their symbol, as in Ukraine's Orange Revolution (2004) and Kuwait's Blue Revolution (2005).

Noun

colour revolution (plural colour revolutions)

1. (politics) Any of various related revolutionary movements that developed in several societies in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans during the early 2000s, mostly using nonviolent resistance.

   Synonym: coloured revolution

   Coordinate term: regime change

   • 2015 December 25, Vietnam News Agency, “Lao Party, State leaders welcome Vietnam’s public security delegation”, in VietnamPlus:

     [General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Choummaly Sayasone] said he hopes the two countries’ public security ministries will intensify cooperation, especially in ensuring security and safety of major events, preventing “colour revolution”, and defeating all “peaceful evolution” and riot plots of hostile and reactionary forces.

Translations

any of various related revolutionary movements mostly using nonviolent resistance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顏色革命 / 颜色革命 (yánsè gémìng)

• Finnish: värivallankumous (fi)
• French: révolution de couleur (fr) f, révolution colorée (fr) f
• German: Farbrevolution f, Farbenrevolution f
• Hungarian: színes forradalom
• Japanese: カラー革命 (karā kakumei)
• Khmer: បដិវត្តន៍ពណ៌ (paʼdevŏət pɔə)
• Russian: цветная революция (ru) f (cvetnaja revoljucija)
• Ukrainian: кольоро́ва револю́ція f (kolʹoróva revoljúcija)
• Vietnamese: cách mạng màu (vi)