Bonapartism
Bonapartism
Definition
Bo·na·part·ism (bō′nə pärt′iz′əm)
noun
- support of the Bonaparte dynasty in France
- the methods, doctrines, etc. of any military-political dictator like Napoleon Bonaparte
Bo′·na·part′·ist noun
Bonapartism
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- epoch: The regime of the senile Marshal Petain represents a senile form of Bonapartism of the epoch of imperialist decline.
Adjective modifier
- proletarian: Despite its earlier successes, proletarian Bonapartism did not solve the problems of society.
- bourgeois: A regime of bourgeois Bonapartism in Russia or Poland would not be a stable regime.
- Soviet: What else should this regime be called if not Soviet Bonapartism?
- Stalinist: The fate of the USSR as a socialist state depends upon that political regime that will arise to replace Stalinist Bonapartism.
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