Reversal may refer to: * Medical reversal, when a medical intervention falls out of use after improved clinical trials demonstrate its ineffectiveness or harmfulness. * Reversal (law), the setting aside of a decision of a lower court by a higher court * In drama, "reversal" refers to Aristotle's concept of Peripeteia * Reversal film, a type of photographic film also known as ''slide'' or ''transparency'' film * '' The Reversal'', a novel by Michael Connelly * Reversal of polarization (disambiguation) * Reversal (wrestling), in which the defensive contender achieves an offensive position * ''Reversal'' (film), a movie about wrestling * Reversal, an options-trading strategy * Reversal of a word in formal language * "Reversal" (''Arrow''), an episode of ''Arrow'' *

Russian reversal "In Soviet Russia", also called the Russian reversal, is a joke template taking the general form "In America you do ''X'' to/with ''Y''; in Soviet Russia ''Y'' does ''X'' to/with you". Typically the American clause describes a harmless ordinary ...

is a type of joke, usually starting with the words "In Soviet Russia", in which the subject and objects of a statement are reversed, commonly as a snowclone pattern

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