dictatorship

The region that is the cradle of the Italian Mafia is the south of Italy - Sicily, Naples, Calabria and Apulia. Due to the presence of a non-mafiotized North and to some extent - the center of Italy and therefore - the presence of an economic and political elite competing with the mafia, the...

Hi everyone, I'm home for month for winter break, so I thought I'd occupy myself by doing some writing. Concept of military juntas running otherwise democratic countires always seemed interesting to me. So I'm interested if you all have any thoughts as to: -What era would be best for it? -What...

This is an idea that's been floating in my head for a while. I know that they're not the same, but there were some similarities between the two, and I've seen people draw parallels between them (the terrors, degenerating into dictatorship, etc), and I was thinking of what might be necessary to...

Throughout the 20th century, many countries have experienced dictatorships. Some started the century that way. Some had democracies that crumbled. While others had dictatorships forced by external, invading armies. The one realm of this world that has nearly consistently enjoyed civil...

Eritrea and South Sudan are known for being the only internationally recognized breakaway African nations and for their poor human rights/development records. Despite surface similarity, the nations have developed on very different trajectories post independence (overcentralized v...

"RFK announces presidential candidacy" - Headline of the Washington Post, 11th December 1967 "Kennedy is plausible. He's not a Johnson or Humphrey, he's not tied to that [Johnson's] administration, the American people will rally around him, he is the one of the few men in this campaign to lead...

There have been many who have claimed that politics is a man's world. I never thought this was true; sure, most people involved in politics have been men, but there have been many notable women involved with it for a very long time. On the other hand, there are some aspects of politics that...

Title pretty much explains it but I'll try to make it more clear I'm not talking about "pulling a Napoleon" where a already authoritarian figure turns his country into their personal kingdom with themselves as monarch What I mean is, take one of the many figures from the 19 to 21 century that...

I have thought sbout this idea. In OTL after Japan surrendered ending WW2, the USA rebuilds Japan and establishes democracy almost overnight. But however, wouldn't it have made sense if Japan while still not fond of China or Korea became more peaceful to them by leaving them alone after they...

With a POD post-1945 make America have a far-right dictatorship.

Göring had a lot of prestige in interwar germany, I won't go into full details but he took over the Red Baron squad and became a very known military figure on the aftermath on the war (Not on the same level as someone as Hindenburg, tough). Eventually he joined the nazi party and became hitler...

Japan surrenders to the United States, ending World War 2. Japan abolishes it's dictatorship and becomes democratic and modernizes. Capitalism is introduced. But what if in an ATL Japan certainly becomes Capitalist and modernizes, but remains Authoritarian, with serious human rights abuses...

So if you have an elite in modern times that uses the military in brutally violent ways and uses economic domination and manipulation in illegal ways and tries to get more and more illegal control over other nations governments and expresses themselves outwardly facistically but does not view...

Is there way to make a political system which combines elements of Absolute Monarchy and Communism start getting popular in the 19th century or early 20th century, and become dominant over many large countries, and not just have modern, somewhat different, isolated examples like North Korea...

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Okay, so your challenge here is incredibly simple yet pretty difficult: give a woman dictatorial power over a country. Absolute monarchs don't count. Bonus points if they have the necessary disposition and retain power for long enough to do some incredibly fucked up shit.

So, when the brazilian 1964 coup happened the expectative was not of a dictatorship, but that the coup would force Castello Branco to be our dictator for about one year until the 1965 election and then the military would leave power and the 1946 republic would continue on, as a soft coup like...

Could the Estado Novo survive? if so how? Also if it did survive is there anyone who seemed likely to become PM Caetano's successor at the time?

THE STAR-SPANGLED EXPANDED UNIVERSE OF "WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?" Due to an almost constant output of little bits of fiction written by fans of WMIT Redux: The Union Forever, dare I say one of the darkest - yet really fun and intriguing - dystopias you'll ever read (I hope you agree, at least)...

The PoD is the wall street crash. After the crash Hindenburg and other officers declare martial law and suspend the constitution, creating a wave of white terror restoring the Preußische Geheimpolizei, purging both far right and far left members of the government, both Hitler, his goons and...