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  1. Absolute ruler, overriding the constitution.
  2. (In ancient Rome a dictator was a magistrate
  3. invested with emergency powers for six
  4. months.) Although dictatorships were common
  5. in Latin America during the 19th century, the
  6. only European example during this period was
  7. the rule of Napoleon III. The crises
  8. following World War I produced many
  9. dictatorships, including the regimes of
  10. Ataturk and Pilsudski (nationalist);
  11. Mussolini, Hitler, Primo de Rivera, Franco,
  12. and Salazar (all right-wing); and Stalin
  13. (Communist).
  14.