Democracy and Tyranny in Modern and Recent Times
| Autor: | Andrei N. Medushevskii |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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| Zdroj: | Russian Social Science Review. 36:3-37 |
| ISSN: | 1557-7848 1061-1428 |
| Popis: | One of the dominant tendencies in the history of mankind throughout the entire course of its development has been the struggle between two opposing principles—democracy and tyranny. The very concepts, born in antiquity, reflected the clash and constant rivalry of two principles in the organization of the political order of the states of antiquity. In the narrow sense democracy was understood to mean a form of the state based on the recognition that the people [narod] are the source and at the same time the bearers of power, which they realize by implementing their civil rights and freedoms. Tyranny was taken to mean a form of state power that was established through force and based on one-person rule. An important peculiarity of the genesis of tyranny (distinguishing it from all other forms of authoritarianism) is the circumstance that it arose in a transitional period in the struggle of the people (the demos) against the ancestral nobility (the aristocracy) and found support in the people for a struggle ... |
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