'fiat' in October: The Story of the Russian Revolution | Bookmarker

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(noun) an authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree

He populates his city by fiat, ordering merchants and nobles to relocate to the nascent metropolis

Peter the Great building St Petersburg (early 1700s)

—p.6 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville

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