variants
also tsarism
or tzarism
as in tyranny
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
historically, during times of national crisis, people have looked to czarism as an answer to their fears
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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.
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Douglas Smith,
WSJ,
13 Sep. 2022
The difference between czarism and Leninism is the one between absolutism and totalitarianism.
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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the collapse of czarism, this commitment to gradual reform and the development of parliamentary institutions seemed outdated.
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Carolyn Harris,
Smithsonian,
13 Apr. 2017
Douglas Smith,
WSJ,
13 Sep. 2022
The difference between czarism and Leninism is the one between absolutism and totalitarianism.
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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the collapse of czarism, this commitment to gradual reform and the development of parliamentary institutions seemed outdated.
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Carolyn Harris,
Smithsonian,
13 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarism
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In its vision of a desolate America ruled by tyranny and militia, the United States becomes, in the eyes of those who live in its pre-industrial ruins, an idealized symbol of better times.
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Reading words in legal texts divorced from fundamental moral values will not save us from tyranny.
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His story stretches beyond sports, touching one of Haiti’s many mysteries of Haiti’s brutal Duvalier dictatorship and reflecting on the outsize role Haitians have long played in shaping American history.
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Virtually all contemporary dictatorships are cosplay democracies with term limits, elections, and legislatures—the few ruling, as Amos Perlmutter put it, in the name of the many.
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This book keeps my feet on the ground and my heart connected to the greater pulse suffering under late-stage capitalism and fascism.
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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