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Say what you will about the tenets of Bonapartism, but at least it’s an ethos.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2012

By last summer, says Washington Sinologist Ralph Powell, the Lin faction's grip on the country was so comprehensive that it seemed "China was on the verge of what in Marxist terms is known as Bonapartism."

From Time Magazine Archive

He lasted a bare four months as full member of the Politburo before Khrushchev fired him for "Bonapartism" in 1957.

From Time Magazine Archive

What was left of Bonapartism with Napoleon rotting in St. Helena?

From Time Magazine Archive

Bonapartism now, for the first time, made its entry into the yellow drawing-room.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred