7 sentences with 'anarchy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word anarchy and other words derived from it.
• « Ultimately, medieval politics represented a system of "warlord" political organisation, in many cases just a step above anarchy. »
• « After the death of Ivan IV the Terrible in 1584, Russia was plunged into a thirty-year period of anarchy called the Time of Troubles in which no one reigned as a recognised ruler. »
• « The nobles reasserted their independence and Russia existed in a state of civil war (or armed anarchy, depending on one's perspective) for decades. »
• « In these circumstances of anarchy in the countryside, the National Assembly needed to do something dramatic to keep control of the situation. »
• « Napoleon's takeover - itself a symptom of the anarchy unleashed by the Revolution - led to nearly twenty years of war and turmoil across the map of Europe. These events demonstrated to conservatives that while careful reform might be acceptable, rapid change was not. »
• « As the social and political situation approached anarchy, a group of Russian communists steeped in the tradition of radical terrorism prepared to act: the Bolsheviks. »
• « The Bolshevik party came to power against the backdrop of the anarchy surrounding Russia's disastrous military position in the latter part of the First World War. »