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id="Best-edited_articles_in_the_"Authoritarianism"_category"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Best-edited_articles_in_the_.22Authoritarianism.22_category"><font color="black">Best-edited articles in the "Authoritarianism" category</font></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_Massacre" title="Tiananmen Square Massacre">Tiananmen Square Massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table>    </div><div class="mw-category-generated" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div id="mw-subcategories"> <h2>Subcategories</h2> <p>This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. </p><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-category"><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>A</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Authoritarian_regimes" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Authoritarian_regimes" title="Category:Authoritarian regimes">Authoritarian regimes</a>‎ <span title="Contains 4 subcategories, 69 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(4 C, 69 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>C</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Communism" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Communism" title="Category:Communism">Communism</a>‎ <span title="Contains 6 subcategories, 105 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(6 C, 105 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>D</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Dictators" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Dictators" title="Category:Dictators">Dictators</a>‎ <span title="Contains 2 subcategories, 70 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(2 C, 70 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>F</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Fascism" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Fascism" title="Category:Fascism">Fascism</a>‎ <span title="Contains 13 subcategories, 198 pages, and 1 file" dir="ltr">(13 C, 198 P, 1 F)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li> <li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Fascists" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Fascists" title="Category:Fascists">Fascists</a>‎ <span title="Contains 8 subcategories, 322 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(8 C, 322 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li> <li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Fundamentalism" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Fundamentalism" title="Category:Fundamentalism">Fundamentalism</a>‎ <span title="Contains 7 subcategories, 56 pages, and 1 file" dir="ltr">(7 C, 56 P, 1 F)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>G</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeEmptyBullet">► </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Government_surveillance" title="Category:Government surveillance">Government surveillance</a>‎ <span title="Contains 0 subcategories, 32 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(32 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>T</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeEmptyBullet">► </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Tankies" title="Category:Tankies">Tankies</a>‎ <span title="Contains 0 subcategories, 29 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(29 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li> <li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeEmptyBullet">► </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Theocracy" title="Category:Theocracy">Theocracy</a>‎ <span title="Contains 0 subcategories, 74 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(74 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li> <li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Totalitarianism" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Totalitarianism" title="Category:Totalitarianism">Totalitarianism</a>‎ <span title="Contains 13 subcategories, 112 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(13 C, 112 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li> <li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeEmptyBullet">► </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Trump_administration" title="Category:Trump administration">Trump administration</a>‎ <span title="Contains 0 subcategories, 21 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(21 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li> <li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Trumpism" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Trumpism" title="Category:Trumpism">Trumpism</a>‎ <span title="Contains 4 subcategories, 86 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(4 C, 86 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul></div></div></div> </div><div id="mw-pages"> <h2>Pages in category "Authoritarianism"</h2> <p>The following 160 pages are in this category, out of 160 total. </p><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-category"><div class="mw-category-group"><h3> </h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarianism</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>2</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election" title="2024 United States presidential election">2024 United States presidential election</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>A</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sohrab_Ahmari" title="Sohrab Ahmari">Sohrab Ahmari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Allister" title="Jim Allister">Jim Allister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idi_Amin" title="Idi Amin">Idi Amin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum" title="Argumentum ad baculum">Argumentum ad baculum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asian_values" title="Asian values">Asian values</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism_of_Donald_Trump" title="Authoritarianism of Donald Trump">Authoritarianism of Donald Trump</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>B</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ba%27ath_Party" title="Ba'ath Party">Ba'ath Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bahrain" title="Bahrain">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barr" title="William Barr">William Barr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria" title="Lavrentiy Beria">Lavrentiy Beria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi" title="Silvio Berlusconi">Silvio Berlusconi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_site" title="Black site">Black site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Lives_Matter" title="Blue Lives Matter">Blue Lives Matter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte" title="Napoleon Bonaparte">Napoleon Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Book_burning" title="Book burning">Book burning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brainwashing" title="Brainwashing">Brainwashing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bread_and_circuses" title="Bread and circuses">Bread and circuses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunei" title="Brunei">Brunei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burning_the_evidence" title="Burning the evidence">Burning the evidence</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>C</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caligula" title="Caligula">Caligula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">Capital punishment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tucker_Carlson" title="Tucker Carlson">Tucker Carlson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship" title="Censorship">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CIA" title="CIA">CIA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Comstock" title="Anthony Comstock">Anthony Comstock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">Concentration camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_of_contempt" title="Crime of contempt">Crime of contempt</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>D</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tad_Devine" title="Tad Devine">Tad Devine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">Dictatorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">Dogma</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>E</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan" title="Recep Tayyip Erdoğan">Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_power_and_the_War_on_Terror" title="Executive power and the War on Terror">Executive power and the War on Terror</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>F</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferguson_effect" title="Ferguson effect">Ferguson effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco_(espa%C3%B1ol)" title="Francisco Franco (español)">Francisco Franco (español)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>G</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi" title="Indira Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Gates" title="Rick Gates">Rick Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">Genocide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Dawn" title="Golden Dawn">Golden Dawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Grayzone" title="The Grayzone">The Grayzone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China" title="Great Firewall of China">Great Firewall of China</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>H</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation">The Heritage Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_revisionism" title="Historical revisionism">Historical revisionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist" title="Hollywood blacklist">Hollywood blacklist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston_Stewart_Chamberlain" title="Houston Stewart Chamberlain">Houston Stewart Chamberlain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Huckabee" title="Mike Huckabee">Mike Huckabee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyles-Anderson_College" title="Hyles-Anderson College">Hyles-Anderson College</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>I</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_China" title="Imperial China">Imperial China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">Imperialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_State_Legislature_Theory" title="Independent State Legislature Theory">Independent State Legislature Theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office" title="Information Awareness Office">Information Awareness Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamism</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>J</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">John Birch Society</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>K</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ramzan_Kadyrov" title="Ramzan Kadyrov">Ramzan Kadyrov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Khamenei" title="Ali Khamenei">Ali Khamenei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini" title="Ruhollah Khomeini">Ruhollah Khomeini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Il-sung" title="Kim Il-sung">Kim Il-sung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-il" title="Kim Jong-il">Kim Jong-il</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" title="Kim Jong-un">Kim Jong-un</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kool-Aid" title="Kool-Aid">Kool-Aid</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>L</h3> 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