The Contras were the various U.S.-backed-and-funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which had come to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution. Among the separate contra groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN) emerged as the largest by far. In 1987, virtually all Contra organizations were united, at least nominally, into the Nicaraguan Resistance.
The Nicaraguan contras in 1987
Contra Commandos from FDN and ARDE Frente Sur in the Nueva Guinea region of Nicaragua in 1987
Members of ARDE Frente Sur
President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush in 1984
A counter-revolutionary or an anti-revolutionary is anyone who opposes or resists a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution in order to try to overturn it or reverse its course, in full or in part. The adjective "counter-revolutionary" pertains to movements that would restore the state of affairs, or the principles, that prevailed during a prerevolutionary era.
The War in the Vendée was a royalist uprising against revolutionary France in 1793–1796.
Red Army troops attack Kronstadt sailors in March 1921.