Adjective : hard-fisted revolutionists.    From Dictionary.com. 

The question is whether Moscow's hardfisted policies are keeping that threat in check -- or fanning the resentments that could inflame it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Awaiting The 'Big Fire'] Reference

They also proscribed the kulak, the able, hardheaded, hardfisted farmer who was richer than his neighbors and liked to see them poorer than himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Armenians and Guns:] Reference

He weighed the hardfisted policies of his loyal Bedouin guard against his hope to ingratiate himself with his Palestinian subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference

Many of them, therefore, indulge in it on credit and soon find themselves deprived of what little property they had to satisfy their hardfisted employers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference