Question by Alexandra: What were 3 reasons that helped lead to the fall of the Romanov Dynasty under Nicolas II?
I have to write a paper on it, i already know that his poor leadership which ties into the wars would be one, but could anyone give me two more please.
THANKS SO MUCH!
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Answer by gorkbarque
He refused to grant more constitutional powers to the Duma; suffered defeat at the hands of the Japanese in 1905 which did not sit well with a great many people; plus he never wanted to be Tsar in the first place; this is one reason why he was such a poor administrator. He was really out of touch with what the people wanted, and in that respect was a lot like George W Bush.
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Troy says
He refused to grant real power to the Duma (Russian congress) and failed to see the power various political parties were rallying around themselves. Nicholas blindly believed that the Duma and the politicians were corrupt but thought the urban poor and the peasantry would support him.
The catastrophic losses in WWI. The army's morale was frail and when they were obliterated in the German front people lost confidence on the government and the generals. Nicholas' decisions were generally wrong and he did not listen to the strategists who were better qualified for the war. Instead he relied on old traditionalists who shared his conservative ideas. In the end soldiers turned against him for his inability to lead and helped rioters in Saint Petersburg instead of controlling them.
He was prone to use violence against his own subjects. His reputation was soiled after 1905 when his soldiers opened fire against peaceful demonstrators in the event know as "Bloody Sunday". He was dubbed "Nicholas the bloody" afterwards and the printing press, financed by his political rivals made him a very dislikeable character because of this. During his absence from the capital in times of war he invariably ordered the army to use force against rioters and was always in support of censorship and political persecution. This never sat well witht he majority of the urban poor who were sent to working camps in Siberia or forced into exile for speaking against the government. In the end Nicholas' censorship and repression could not control the press and the public opinion who saw him as a weak and tyranical man.
Xenia says
Class struggles (the peasantry, which constituted the vast majority of Russia, were under the rule of a rather small aristocracy)
Dissident groups (e.g., Lenin)
Japanese war
Artorius says
Aside from the first world war, he was out of touch with the plight of common people of Russia & then there was the Bolshevik (communist) revolution.