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autocracyForm of government in which one person holds absolute power. The autocrat has uncontrolled and undisputed authority. Russian government under the tsars was an autocracy extending from the mid-16th century to the early 20th century. The title Autocratix (a female autocrat) was assumed by Catherine II of Russia in the 18th century. |
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| * The Black Hundreds were reactionary mobs organized by the perishing Autocracy in the Russian Revolution. In his mystic acceptance of the principle of autocracy he was bent on extirpating from the land every vestige of anything that resembled freedom in public institutions; and in his ruthless persecution of the rising generation he seemed to aim at the destruction of the very hope of liberty itself. |
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