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Autocracy
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AUTOCRACY. The name of a government where the monarch is unlimited by law. Such is the power of the emperor of Russia, who, following the example of his predecessors, calls himself the autocrat of all the Russias.



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He predicted conflict between democracies and the emerging autocracies, including Russia.
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