Sentence:  The year —that was the beginning of the Soviet <WSD>Thermidor</WSD>.&#39;&#39;43 Thus Trotsky finally recognized that a <WSD>Thermidor</WSD> had in fact occurred, not as an overt bourgeois coup but as a more subtle political shift within the ruling party. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A (counterrevolution); a (coup d'état) resembling the (Thermidorian Reaction).