7 sentences with “anarchy”

Ultimately, medieval politics represented a system of "warlord" political organisation, in many cases just a step above anarchy.

In these circumstances of anarchy in the countryside, the National Assembly needed to do something dramatic to keep control of the situation.

The nobles reasserted their independence and Russia existed in a state of civil war (or armed anarchy, depending on one's perspective) for decades.

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.

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.

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.

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.