Temper and "Arakcheevschina"
Arakcheyev is said to have executed two junior officers by having them buried up to their necks and leaving them to die of starvation and thirst. On another occasion he is said to have personally cut off another officer's head with his sword after a perceived infraction. "Arakcheevschina" (Russian: аракчеевщина), roughly translated as "the Arakcheev regime", became a derogatory term for a military state, denoting "the atmosphere of reactionary repression closing over Russian society". This label was routinely applied by Soviets authors to characterize a regime of reactionary oppression. For instance, Joseph Stalin used the term "Arakcheevschina" to describe the sway held by Ivan Meshchaninov in the Soviet Institute of Language and Thought in 1950.
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