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partocracy, n. Pol.|pɑːˈtɒkrəsɪ|
[f. party n. + -ocracy.]
Government or rule by a single political party without opposition; totalitarianism; applied spec. to the political organization of the Soviet Union (1917–91); also, the body of persons forming such a government.
1966tr. A. Avtorkhanov's Communist Party Apparatus p. v, History has witnessed three main forms of government: autocracy, oligarchy and democracy. The twentieth century has contributed a new form of rule, heretofore unknown: partocracy, which is entitled to take its place alongside the classical forms of rule. Ibid. p. vi, The term partocracy should be understood to mean not only this form of one-party rule unique in the history of state formations but the science and art of this rule as well. 1969Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 800/3 Partocracy, absolute rule by one political party through a government subject to its dictates. 1980Sunday Times 20 July 35/2 The resentment of the workers I talked to was not only directed to what they took as the Partocracy's growing greed. 1983Times Lit. Suppl. 27 May 532/5 The Russian gentry had obvious faults. But on balance it sinned less than the monolithic partocracy which succeeded it after 1917. |