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Authoritarianism
- AuthoritarianismIn 1964, political scientist Juan Linz published a work titled An Authoritarian Regime: Spain that established four core qualities for this system.
- DictatorshipA dictator holds absolute or near-absolute political power, controlling all aspects of government and society. Politics in a dictatorship are managed by an…
- Absolute monarchyIn 1629, King Charles I dissolved the Parliament of England and ruled without it for eleven years. This act marked a clear shift from shared governance to…
- ImperialismImperialism is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, and its name traces back to a single Latin word, imperium, meaning to command, to…
- Ferdinand MarcosFerdinand Marcos entered the world on the 11th of September 1917 in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte. His father Mariano was a lawyer and congressman who later died as a…
- AutocracyIn 1775, Gabriel François Doyen painted the coronation of Louis XVI of France, capturing a moment where absolute power was visually cemented in gold and…
- Joseph II, Holy Roman EmperorJoseph II entered the world at two in the morning on Monday, the 13th of March 1741. He was born inside Vienna's Hofburg palace, which served as the…
- JacobinsIn May 1789, deputies from Brittany gathered at the Palace of Versailles to attend the Estates General. They formed a group called the Club Breton within…
- OligarchyThe Greek word oligarchy translates to rule by a small number of people. Leaders of such regimes are often called oligarchs and generally hold titles of…
- LeninismVladimir Lenin developed a political ideology in the early 20th century that responded to specific conditions within Imperial Russia.
- Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on the 7th of October 1952 in Leningrad. He grew up as the youngest of three children during a time when his family…
- Enlightened absolutismEnlightened absolutism emerged as a political philosophy during the 18th and early 19th centuries. European absolute monarchs adopted Enlightenment ideas to…
- Absolutism (European history)The word absolutism emerged long after the kings who supposedly wielded it had died. Historians applied the term post-hoc to monarchs before the French…
- PutinismThe phrase Putinism first appeared in print on the 11th of January 2000. Andrei Piontkovsky published an article titled Putinism in the newspaper Sovetskaya…
- NCERT textbook controversiesThe National Council of Educational Research and Training began its work in 1961 as a government body designed to guide school education across India.
- Russia under Vladimir PutinOn the 31st of December 1999, the Russian Constitution placed Vladimir Putin in charge as acting president following Boris Yeltsin's resignation.