Curated category
Authoritarianism
- AuthoritarianismAuthoritarianism is a political system built around a single, unyielding premise: that concentrated power is more important than the people it governs.
- DictatorshipA dictatorship is a form of government built around one person who holds absolute or near-absolute political power. That person, the dictator, does not rule…
- Absolute monarchyAbsolute monarchy is a form of government in which a single ruler holds political power with no constitutions, legislatures, or other checks standing in the…
- Mohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Reza Pahlavi was born on the 26th of October 1919 in Tehran, the eldest son of a Brigadier-General who had not yet become king.
- 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 arrived in Hawaii in February 1986 with 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry, and a 12 by 4 foot box full of…
- AutocracyAutocracy, in its simplest form, is rule by a single person wielding absolute power. The word traces back to Ancient Greek: autos, meaning self, and kratos…
- Joseph II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the night of the 19th to the 20th of February 1790, Joseph II slept for a few hours, helped along by painkillers. At five in the morning he woke and asked…
- JacobinsThe Jacobins began not as architects of terror but as a small group of deputies from Brittany who gathered quietly during the Estates General of 1789 at the…
- OligarchyOligarchy is a form of government in which power rests with a small number of people. That definition sounds simple. But across thousands of years of…
- Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin was born on the 7th of October 1952 in Leningrad, a city shaped by some of the most catastrophic violence of the 20th century.
- Enlightened absolutismEnlightened absolutism sits at one of history's most uncomfortable intersections: absolute power dressed in the language of reason.
- Absolutism (European history)Absolutism names a form of monarchical power that answers to no outside check: no church, no legislature, no social elite.
- PutinismPutinism, wrote the Hoover Institution's Arnold Beichman in The Washington Times in February 2007, had become "as significant a watchword as Stalinism was in…
- 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, Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of Russia and handed power to a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin.