autocracy

Examples of autocracy in the following topics:

• Monarchies and Liberal Democracies

  • A monarch that has few or no legal restraints in state and political matters is referred to as an absolute monarchy, a form of autocracy.

• Charismatic Authority

  • In politics, charismatic rule is often found in various authoritarian states, autocracies, dictatorships, and theocracies.

• Theories of Democracy

  • Theoretically, Aristotle contrasted rule by the many (democracy/polity) with rule by the few (oligarchy/aristocracy) and with rule by a single person (tyranny or autocracy/monarchy).

• The Bolsheviks

  • The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of Communist Russia.

• Non-Democratic Governments: Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Dictatorship

  • An autocracy is a system of government in which a supreme political power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control.

• Red Scare

  • In a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, collectively known as the Russian Revolution, the Tsarist autocracy was dismantled and replaced by communists.

• Fall of the Flavian Emperors

  • From the outset of his reign, he stressed the reality of his autocracy.

• The Eisenhower Administration

  • The initial struggle came to a close in December 1960, after Kasavubu and Mobutu overthrew Lumumba and proceeded to turn the country (later known as Zaire) into an autocracy, which was unstable long after the end of Eisenhower's term.

• The Westernization of Russia

  • Peter I the Great introduced autocracy in Russia and played a major role in introducing his country to the European state system.