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Tsarism is the name that history has attributed to the system of government that prevailed in Russia between the middle of the 16th century and the early years of the 20th century. Although in the year 1721, Pedro I, imposed the title of emperor, this did not manage to eradicate the popularity of tsarism.
It was named that way since the authority Maximum that made and unmade Piacere was the Tsar. Tsar was a title attributed to the Russian emperor. The equivalent for women was tsarina.

As was the case with the monarchical absolutism, Tsarism, was characterized by being a government in which the last and only word was precisely the czar. That is, power resided in a single person who was the tsar or the tsarina and who should not render any account to the society that led politically or to a congress. Neither did the Tsar have a regulation or limitation to his power, far from it. Everything that happened in matters politics and economic depended on the designs of the tsar.

But there is a third issue in which the Tsar also had notable interference, religiously, since that to his absolute power in political and economic matters was added that because of his position he was the protector of the Russian Orthodox Church. Of course this fact gave him decision of power in matters of religion.

Obviously Tsarism is in the antipodes of the democracyThis last system of government is distinguished by the fact that it is the people who freely and directly elect their representatives, from the highest executive position to legislative positions.

The revolutions that took place during the first years of the 20th century would make the figure of the Tsar disappear and therefore his form of government Tsarism. The last Russian tsar was Nicholas II, who would abdicate the throne in 1917.

It should be noted that in the use colloquial of language a person who has enormous power or influence in his task or sphere of action is usually called a czar. Ted Turner is the media czar of communication.