The story takes place in the 50's before the revolution.

I thought it was only a matter of time before the revolution.

"Tell me about your life with him before the revolution."

You can remember what it was like in the old days, before the Revolution.

"Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?"

It might be true that the average human being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution.

When the family moved from France, before the revolution, they sort of made their money the same way until my mother.

Before the revolution, he says, someone like him couldn't get into a hospital as a patient, let alone become a doctor.

No one who did not live before the Revolution will ever know how sweet life could be.

Counter trade was used before the revolution here a year ago.