variants also tsarism or tzarism

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Recent Examples of czarism Like so many at the time, Paustovsky had hopes of a democratic future with the end of czarism. Douglas Smith, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022 Lenin, Stalin and their epigones, despite their ideological rejection of czarism, acted as de facto Great Russian imperialists in assembling the Soviet Union and maintaining it by brute force. George Weigel, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022 The difference between czarism and Leninism is the one between absolutism and totalitarianism. Josef Joffe, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017 With the collapse of czarism, this commitment to gradual reform and the development of parliamentary institutions seemed outdated. Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarism
Noun
  • Every other protection against tyranny and political oppression — that is, every aspect of a stable democratic system — suffers a possibly mortal blow if the basic tenets of an independent judiciary and the adversarial advocacy of lawyers are abandoned or lost.
    Michael Mcauliffe, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Separated by 250 years, these two actions both supposedly raise the question: Just how much tyranny ...
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the benchmark survey, known as Bright Line Watch, U.S.-based professors rate the performance of American democracy on a scale from zero (complete dictatorship) to 100 (perfect democracy).
    Frank Langfitt, NPR, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In the late 1970s, Argentina was under the heel of a military dictatorship.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Czarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/czarism. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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