Revolutionary Council Explained

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 (Portugal), a body created by the Armed Forces Movement in 1975, disbanded in 1982
• 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 between 1969 and 1991
• Union Revolutionary Council, the supreme governing body of socialist Burma between 1962 and 1974

See also

• Revolutionary committee (disambiguation)
• Revolutionary Command Council (disambiguation)
• Workers' council