velvet revolution

noun

1. the peaceful overthrow of a government, esp a communist government, as occurred in Czechoslovakia in late 1989

Example Sentences

In May 2007 she was charged with “crimes against national security and planning a velvet revolution,” and then incarcerated.

From The Daily Beast

These "new religion-personality cult-purges" cycles were not absent from the Velvet Revolution.

From Project Gutenberg