populismn.

1891 N.Y. Times 9 Aug. 2/4 (headline) Populism dying out in the South.

1896 Sat. Rev. 9 May 468 Populism being, in fact, pretty much a resurrection of Greenbackism under another form and name.

1918 I. Friedlaender tr. S. M. Dubnow Hist. Jews in Russ. & Poland II. xx. 223 The fundamental article of faith of the Jewish socialists was cosmopolitanism, and they failed to discern in Russian ‘Populism’ the underlying elements of a Russian national movement.

1958 W. Z. Laqueur Middle East in Transition ii. 332 There are some interesting parallels between the new Communist Populism in the Middle East, and Russian and American Populism in the nineteenth century—anti-Semitism for instance.

1972 Time 17 Apr. 31/1 Populism is a label that covers disparate policies and passions: among many others, New Deal reforms, consumer rage against business, ethnic belligerence.

1995 New Republic 10 July 12/1 His creed..consists of a rampant economicism, an elitism disguised as man-in-the-street populism and a knowingness presented as folksiness.

1930 L. Lemonnier in This Quarter Mar. 443 At last, we hit upon the word ‘populism’. It clearly expressed the fact that we meant to depict the people; it was not altogether a new word in French, inasmuch as it had been used to translate the name of the German political party Volkspartei, but it had never as yet been applied to any artistic, political or literary movement specifically French. Having then dubbed ourselves populists, we decided to write a manifesto.

1934 Notes & Queries 26 May 361/2 In Thérive's ‘Le Baiser de Satan’, Populism has attempted what Naturalism shied from the historical novel.

1964 French Rev. 37 505 The twentieth century saw further extensions of realism in Populism and in the more recent neo-realism of Nathalie Sarraute and Robbe-Grillet.