czarists
Russian throne supporters
Czarists are supporters of czarism—the autocratic system of government that ruled Russia under the czars until the 1917 revolution.
The term typically describes those who opposed the Bolsheviks and sought to restore monarchical rule: Czarists fled to Paris after the revolution.
Also spelled tsarists.
Anti-progress political stance
- conservatismPreference for existing institutions
- counterrevolutionaryOne opposing radical overthrow
- restorationistOne who returns things to original condition
- anti-BolshevikOpposing communist revolutionaries
émigré · exile · nostalgia · traditionalism · ancien régime · orthodoxy · nationalism
Rule by one
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
imperial · absolutism · divine right · succession · coronation · regent · royalty · restoration
Russian absolute monarch
- RomanovImperial Russian ruling family
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
- SiberiaRussia's eastern expanse
serfdom · Peter the Great · Catherine the Great · Ivan the Terrible · Rasputin · Kremlin · Moscow · Tolstoy
Titled ruling class
- gentryHighborn but not noble
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
- eliteSuperior select group
- courtiersRoyal court members
privileged · titles · estates · bluebloods · patricians · feudalism · serfdom · landowners
reactionary
Anti-progress political stance
- conservatismPreference for existing institutions
- counterrevolutionaryOne opposing radical overthrow
- restorationistOne who returns things to original condition
anti-Bolshevik · émigré · exile · nostalgia · traditionalism · ancien régime · orthodoxy · nationalism
autocracy
Rule by one
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
sovereignty · imperial · absolutism · divine right · succession · coronation · regent · royalty · restoration · royalists
tsar
Russian absolute monarch
- RomanovImperial Russian ruling family
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
Siberia · serfdom · Peter the Great · Catherine the Great · Ivan the Terrible · Rasputin · Kremlin · Moscow · Tolstoy · Dostoevsky
nobility
Titled ruling class
- gentryHighborn but not noble
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
- eliteSuperior select group
courtiers · privileged · titles · estates · bluebloods · patricians · feudalism · serfdom · landowners · aristocrats
- Royalistsmonarchists, monarchist, royalists, royalist, loyalists
czaristsBolsheviks
Lenin's revolutionary party
Bolshevists · communists · Reds · Leninists · revolutionaries
czaristsrevolutionaries
Those seeking systemic overthrow
radicals · insurrectionists · anti-monarchists · regicides · reformists
czaristsanti-monarchists
Opponents of royal government
democrats · egalitarians · collectivists · constitutionalists · parliamentarians
- czarist regimeRussian imperial government
- czarist ruleRussian imperial autocracy