czarist

Events like this emperor's pardon, in the end, may have led to the fall of the russian czarist regime.

Co-opting the Russian Orthodox church into a neo-czarist Church of Putin is hardly the mark of a good leader, either.

The US has a professional army more akin to Czarist Russia than anything the founder's imagined.

Odd that he is comparing the fall of czarist Russia in 1917 to his own government.

Does anyone think that the poor of today would be better off in Czarist Russia?

Those were controversially oppressive laws even in the context of 17th center Czarist Russia/Eastern Europe.

The Czarist empire was still mostly a feudal state, and most peasants lived with no education and no money, barely scraping by.

In the instances that it has merged with religion it has also adopted various medieval anti-jewish mythology and/or 19th century Czarist propaganda.

So many of them have czarist ambitions, and Putin has laid the groundwork.

Well, it seems the Czarist theme plays well with the Russian population.

Russia during the czarist era suffered severe famines about one each 11 years, and the death toll was on the order of millions, all happening while Russia exported grains [1].

At least Lenin was actually trying to give people peace, land and bread, and was arguably a real step up from the Czarist regime, until Stalin came along after Lenin's death.

Various Muslim brotherhood affiliates streams, for example, believe in the Czarist "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" document.

Landowners would never be the "neighbors" of a peasant in Czarist Russia.

Communism can be centralized or decentralized (see the early definition of "soviet", which was a local and decentralized council-based power structure, intentionally created to counteract centralized Czarist influence...

Stalin wasn't sentenced by a court (if you ignore the Czarist time which is very far from being the most important fact), so Wikipedia can't really call him "criminal".