Title: Are there any historical examples of a benevolent dictatorship? : AskHistorians
Headings: Are there any historical examples of a benevolent dictatorship?
Are there any historical examples of a benevolent dictatorship?
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Content: He forced integration onto his platoons and (eventually) battalions, made the Partisans pay for everything they expropriated, and ensured that the laws of the resistance Partisan movement enforced laws equally. This had the dual effect of winning popular support and also imprinted a sense of National Unity. After the war, Tito charted his own course, being technically unaligned with the Soviet Union, but still acted like Stalin with his purges and secret police. So, he's a strongman thug but one that melded (even if just temporarily) the disparate Balkans. For more, read James Polk's "Violent Politics"
Also, it could be argued that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is arguably the most well-respected 'benevolent' dictator, at least in his home country. After World War One, he led the resistance to European occupation and division of Anatolia, the heartland of the old Ottoman Empire. Afterward, he crafted a stridently secular constitution, banned fezs and hijabs, forced the adoption of a European-style alphabet over the Arabic-influenced one, made people take fixed last names, and installed the idea of Kemalism (or emulation of Ataturk's principles mixed with Nationalism) upon the people and the military of Turkey. Turkey became a Western-looking and Westward-looking society by the 1920s, with nationalist plays hailing Ataturk and secularization, even becoming the only Muslim member of NATO. The military stood guard over the constitution until the 21st century, initiating coup d'etat upon the civilian government whenever it seemed to stray from secularism; every 20 years or so, the military took over the government, tweaked the constitution, and then held elections for a new civilian government.