Anarchy (disambiguation)

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: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, a 2019 book 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