autocracy
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Mr. Beevor disagrees, arguing that Rasputin “contributed more than any other individual to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
He admired the spirit of liberty, for instance, yet opposed the French Revolution and supported Napoleon, believing that ensuing populist disorder would then, as it turned out, require autocracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
An expert in the law of autocracy, Scheppele has seen firsthand what happened to constitutional courts, the media, the academy and the democratic norms that protected them in Russia and Hungary.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026
The Gbagbos protested against Houphouët-Boigny's autocracy, which lasted for 33 years, calling for multi-party democracy.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Although his reign may have begun idealistically, Cahokia quickly became an autocracy; in an Ozymandiac extension of his ego, the supreme leader set in motion the construction projects.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
A common and mostly true dictum holds that democratic societies possess a capacity for self-criticism and self-correction that autocracies don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Though in fairness, the app has stood firm against other censorship orders from autocracies like Myanmar and Russia, the latter of which temporarily banned the app in 2018.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
Our ancestors were fleeing autocracies, aristocracies and they were fleeing the unpredictability of the law that comes from an aristocracy or a dictatorship.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
Will Tracy, the show’s creator and co-writer, said he read 20 books about autocracies, authoritarian leaders and totalitarian states to develop the six episodes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Under a democratic regime the standard is very different from that which has existed, for the most part, under autocracies in past ages.
From The Fighting Governer : A Chronicle of Frontenac by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby
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