Word: autocrats
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...manners (sword-wearing and smoking in front of ladies were banned), ordered all the old ladies to sit in the back rows and all the shyest maidens to dance. The plump, dandiacal "King of Bath," whose crown was an enormous cream-colored beaver hat, ruled society like an autocrat.* Graceful new Georgian buildings transformed Bath into the handsomest of English towns...
...years, Bostonians had come to boast of their Russian-born conductor as their grandparents once boasted of Emerson or Dr. Holmes. He was a welcome autocrat at any Brahmin table, and when his concerts were over, Boston dowagers liked to flock backstage to kiss and be kissed on both cheeks...
...charge that Stalin never amounted to much as a pre-revolutionary theorist. Beria's Stalin is always right, always on the Leninist beam, always out in front of "the toiling masses." Why did this crass flattery matter to Stalin, who was already the world's most powerful autocrat? Precisely because the Communist regime had struck no real social roots, it attached fantastic importance to nuances of "theory." The Communist victory had been made by ideas in the heads of a handful of men, plus overwhelming police power used to cover up the failure of those ideas to create...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...Democratic Union - known as the Jewish Bund. Though both re mained revolutionaries, from 1903 onward he opposed Lenin's methods. In 1917, thirteen days after Lenin's seizure of power, Zaslavsky's opposition twanged toward its angriest pitch : "Lenin has taken power to become the genuine autocrat of Russia. ... So far only the bourgeois press has been extinguished. . . ." Twenty-one days later: "In Petrograd the Bolsheviks are closing up the press with sadistic cruelty indeed." Thirty-three days later: "Preliminary censorship! All fools and scoundrels have protected themselves by this instrument." Lenin had answered: "Capitalism purchases...