czarism
Americannoun
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dictatorship; despotic or autocratic government.
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the system of government in Russia under the czars.
noun
Etymology
Origin of czarism
Example Sentences
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But the farsighted and analytical statesman did manage to wrest his own homeland from the grip of czarism and from two other powers, Austria and Prussia.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
That’s the standard view: Even Stalin, no admirer of czarism, put a positive gloss on Peter’s reign.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2018
"We find ourselves faced with a new and far more complex form of imperialism, a mixture of czarism and Marxism with colonial appendages," he said.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was to avert this that practically all the social elements, both liberal and reactionary, united with the revolutionists in overturning czarism.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
Rasputin, not the revolutionary movement, brought about the downfall of czarism.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
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