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Definition of Czarist

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of a czar.

Definition of Czarist

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of tsarist) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Czarist

1. a supporter of czarism [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Czarist

Literary usage of Czarist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Soviet Russia by Friends of Soviet Russia, Soviet Union Russian Soviet Government Bureau (New York, N.Y.) (1920)
"The Workers' and Peasants' Government further declared void all secret treaties, with which the czarist Government, together with the Allies, had enslaved ..."

2. The Fruits of Victory: A Sequel to "The Great Illusion," by Norman Angell (1921)
"But the fact that we were delivering over Poland to the mercies of a czarist Government was not secret. Every educated man knew what Russian policy under ..."

3. Russian-American Relations, March, 1917-March, 1920: Documents and Papers by Foreign Policy Association, Caroline King Cumming, Walter William Pettit (1920)
"The so-called Governments of Kolchak and Denikin are purely monarchical; all power belongs there to the wildest adherents of Czarism; extreme czarist papers ..."

4. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"The czarist state, incapable of refining itself into a progressive organism, had to expand territorially, and it was the army that removed the boundaries ..."

5. The Problem of Foreign Policy: A Consideration of Present Dangers and the by Gilbert Murray (1921)
"The secret police, whose activities had made hideous the record of the czarist Government, and who had fled for their lives at the first outbreak of the ..."

6. The Proletarian Revolution in Russia by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Leon Trotsky (1918)
"We have notified China that we relinquish the conquests of the czarist Government in Manchuria, and that we recognize Chinese rights in this territory, ..."

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