Various right-wing sources opposed any democratic system, preferring an authoritarian, autocratic state like the 1871 Empire.

It declared independence in 1991 but remains an autocratic state.

This unequal relationship was reflected in the autocratic, all-powerful state headed usually by one person.

The first British documentary made inside one of the world's most autocratic states.

Because of Russia's strong autocratic state, the vanguard party had to be implemented differently.

The philosophy proposed that above this should lie a strong autocratic state.

Lastly, the formation has encouraged autocratic states to develop into democracies in order to form an effective and internal government.

More specific economic policies, which have been widely discussed in recent years, fit within this tendency towards an autocratic state.

Studies show that democratic states are more likely than autocratic states to win the wars.

The old fears of Russia's autocratic, ultra-centralised state were surely right.