Both Uses of
autocracy
in
War and Peace
- Nor could there have been a war had there been no English intrigues and no Duke of Oldenburg, and had Alexander not felt insulted, and had there not been an autocratic government in Russia, or a Revolution in France and a subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that produced the French Revolution, and so on.†
Chpt 9 *
- He is a second autocrat," he concluded with a victorious smile.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(autocracy) a political system governed by a single individual