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Anarchy is the state of a society being freely constituted without authorities or a governing body. In contradiction to a misunderstanding of the concept as "chaotic", it includes order and peace.
Anarchy may also refer to:
General
- Anarchism, the belief that the state and all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished
- Anarchy in international relations, posits that there is no universal sovereign or worldwide government
- Lawlessness, the feared result of anarchism
Historical periods
- Anarchy at Samarra, period of civil war and fragmentation in the Abbasid Caliphate (861–870)
- Anarchy of the 12 Warlords, period of civil war in Vietnam (944–968)
- Military Anarchy, period of civil war and military coups in the Roman Empire (235–284)
- The Anarchy, the period of civil war and unsettled government in England during the reign (1135–1154) of King Stephen
- Twenty Years' Anarchy, the period of extreme instability and several short-lived emperors in the Byzantine Empire (695–717)
Comics
- Anarchy Comics, a series of underground comics published between 1978 and 1987
- Anarchy, the fifth trade paperback volume of the Powers comic book series, published by Image Comics
Films
- Cymbeline (film), or Anarchy, a 2014 film based on Shakespeare's Cymbeline
- Anarchy (1989 film), a Soviet drama film
Music
- Anarchy (Busta Rhymes album), 2000
- Anarchy (Chumbawamba album), 1994
- Anarchy (Neon Hitch album), 2016
- Anarchy (Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku album), 2016
- "Anarchy" (song), a 1997 song by KMFDM
Other arts and media
- Anarchy (video game), a 1990 shooter video game
- Anarchy Online, a 2001 science fiction MMORPG game
- The Anarchy (book), a book on the East India Company by William Dalrymple
- Anarchy (book) (L'anarchia), Errico Malatesta's 1891 pamphlet explaining his version of anarchism
- Anarchy (magazine), a London anarchist magazine from the 1960s
- Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, a North American anarchist magazine
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with anarchy
- All pages with titles containing anarchy
- Anarchist (disambiguation)
- Anarchism (disambiguation)
- Anarky (disambiguation)
- Anomie, a social condition characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values
- Chaos (disambiguation), unpredictability, the antithetical concept of cosmos
- Relationship anarchy, the application of anarchist principles to intimate relationships
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