Revolutionary Council
Revolutionary Council may refer to the:
- Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan), organ of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1965 until the party's collapse in 1992.
- Revolutionary Council (Algeria), the body that ruled Algeria following its 1965 coup d'état.
- Revolutionary Council (Zanzibar), part of the semi-autonomous Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar.
It may, alternatively, refer to the:
- Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, a group of Sierra Leone soldiers that allied itself with the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the late 1990s.
- Council of Islamic Revolution (Iran), a group of clerics and experts chosen to manage Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and then legislate for its interim government.
- National Patriotic Front of Liberia – Central Revolutionary Council, a rebel group that participated in the Liberian civil war.
- Revolutionary Military Council, the supreme military authority of Soviet Russia.
- Supreme Revolutionary Council (Madagascar), the body that ruled Madagascar from 1975.
- Supreme Revolutionary Council (Somalia), the body that ruled Somalia for most of the period bewtween 1969 and 1991.
- Union Revolutionary Council, the supreme governing body of socialist Burma between 1962 and 1974.
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