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- noun The practices of Napoleon Bonaparte
- noun A
populist alliance between thebourgeoisie and thelumpenproletariat characterized by strongleadership and conservativenationalism
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Examples
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He accused a number of members of the defunct junta of "Bonapartism" and sent some of them abroad in ambassadorial posts.
Pakistan 29 years after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's execution 2008
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His "Bonapartism", we are told, "also owes something to his sometimes arcane, quasi-feudal, pre-capitalist corporatist values ... (p20)".
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"Bonapartism" normally tends to be a political move to the conservative side, or at best a corporative self-assertion of the armed forces as a special economic and professional pressure group within the status quo.
How to Plot Your Takeover Hobsbawm, E.J. 1969
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One of the world's great tragedies since the fall of the Soviet Union has been Russia's slide back to Bonapartism under Vladimir Putin.
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Having just fought the putschists to defend democracy and constitutionality, for Yeltsin to violate the constitution and dissolve an elected parliament—one that was enthusiastically supporting his initiatives—would have seemed a bizarre act of Bonapartism.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Having just fought the putschists to defend democracy and constitutionality, for Yeltsin to violate the constitution and dissolve an elected parliament—one that was enthusiastically supporting his initiatives—would have seemed a bizarre act of Bonapartism.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Having just fought the putschists to defend democracy and constitutionality, for Yeltsin to violate the constitution and dissolve an elected parliament—one that was enthusiastically supporting his initiatives—would have seemed a bizarre act of Bonapartism.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Having just fought the putschists to defend democracy and constitutionality, for Yeltsin to violate the constitution and dissolve an elected parliament—one that was enthusiastically supporting his initiatives—would have seemed a bizarre act of Bonapartism.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an old fund of Bonapartism about him.
Les Miserables 2008
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He was responding to Vladimir Putin's quick-step march into authoritarianism -- Bonapartism with a semi-civilian face.
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