Definition of "tsarism" []

• A system of government ruled by a tsar. (noun)

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• "Liberal democracy is hardly what inspires current forces like Iranian Khomeinism, global jihadism, the caudillismo of Latin America, or the neo-tsarism of Russia."
• "While America was trying to acquaint 25 million Iraqis with democracy, 144.5 million Russians fell under President Vladimir Putin's "managed democracy" -- tsarism leavened by state-manipulated plebiscites."
• "This view found its logical expression in the events of the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, when the orthodox Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party (RSDLP) handed the leadership of the mass movement to the bourgeois-liberal Kadets (Constitutional Democrats), who in turn were so frightened by the threat of social and economic instability that they ended up compromising with the forces of tsarism and reaction."