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These reactionary groups attacked the revolutionary groups, and also, at needed moments, rioted and destroyed property so as to afford the Autocracy the pretext of calling out the Cossacks.
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The Pie-Eyed Picayune: Russia: Liberal Autocracy or Illiberal Democracy skip to main | skip to sidebar
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Autocracy and petty politics in Sri Lanka did not end with the end of the civil war with the Tamil Tigers.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka: Foreign Affairs Roundup 2010
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When dealing with Germany, in other words, Lansing felt that acceptance of the Fourteen Points and the League was not enough: We must crush Prussianism so completely that it can never rise again, and we must end Autocracy in every other nation as well….
How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010
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Autocracy and petty politics in Sri Lanka did not end with the end of the civil war with the Tamil Tigers.
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Because we don't know any better, this leads to a situation in which our society -- especially the civic side -- uses the only model of organized effort we've ever experienced: the Autocracy that exists in most families.
Steven G. Brant: Why Obama Must Follow Drucker's (Not McChrystal's) Advice 2009
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Also, the people had mostly no sense for freedom and individuality the majority, because Russia had been an Autocracy even before Communism came.
The U.S. vs. Communist Dictatorship, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Autocracy in Africa was ruinous: Narrow ethnically based elites plundered the country for their own short-term benefit.
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In 1904 she won a special scholarship in Economics and History at the London School of Economics, where from 1904 – 1907 she worked on her doctorate on the development of New South Wales, which she published in 1909 as A Colonial Autocracy.
Marion Phillips. 2009
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Autocracy is a style of government rather than a framework of ideas that determines how it is executed.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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