Syria
The Corrective Revolution, better known as the Corrective Movement, was a military-pragmatist faction's takeover within the Ba'ath Party regime of Syria in 1970, bringing Hafez al-Assad to power. It was directed against a dominant ultraleft-wing faction of the party and, to some extent, provoked by what Assad and his supporters saw as adventureous and irresponsible foreign policies (notably the Syrian intervention in the Black September conflict in Jordan, after which the Black September Palestinian faction was named). As a result of the coup, de facto leader Salah Jadid was ousted and the party was purged.
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