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A dictatorship is a government where one leader holds absolute or near-absolute power, controlling politics through a small circle of elites like advisers and generals while suppressing opposition. It matters because understanding how dictatorships maintain control—through both appeasing their inner circle and repressing rival parties, armed resistance, and dissent—helps explain how such governments function and persist.

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