Absolutism

Absolutism may refer to:

==Government== Absolutism (European history), period c. 1610 – c. 1789 in Europe Enlightened absolutism, influenced by the Enlightenment (18th- and early 19th-century Europe) Absolute monarchy, in which a monarch rules free of laws or legally organized opposition Autocracy, a political theory which argues that one person should hold all power Tsarist autocracy, is a form of autocracy (later absolute monarchy) specific to Russia