Was the colapse of the Romanov family because of the economic changes?

Question by ppashias2: How far do you agree that the colapse of the Romanov family was mainly because of the economic chages?
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Answer by Spellbound (bigredan *JPA)
The underlying problem was economic. But the situation in Russia was much more complex than that.

Economic – Peasants still largely enserfed – many millions did not take up the mortgages to free themselves.
Factories were huge enterprises making goods for either the military or the railways.
Agriculture was extremely backward – strip farming and periodic redistribution of land based on an individual’s family’s needs, meaning there was no inventive to improve the land.
The aristocracy was extremely rich – many lived in vast palaces on huge estates and lived lives of luxury.

Political.
Nicholas’s interference in the Duma, his arrogance, his belief in Autocracy all helped to undermine him.
The soviets. Since 1905 soviets had been spreading across the country, they were councils which helped to run towns, cities, factories, districts and army units.
The effect of an increase in education (and agitation and propaganda) was a rise in the radical parties – notably the Revolutionary Socialist Party – this was a popularist party which advocated extreme measures to get its message across – murder, planting bombs and political assassination – Lenin’s brother Alexandr was associated with them, he was hanged for a botched assassination attempt.

Social – because the Tsars had forbidden political parties it had forced people into the arms of the most extreme parties.
People were bound more to each other as serfs, as peasants, as co-workers than they were to the Aristocracy. The Aristos spoke French, lived in St Petersburg, abroad or on their estates, whilst the poor spoke Russian, lived in squalor everywhere in the country.
Religion had been very important to most Russians – most homes had an icon and portrait of the Tsar.
After the 1905 revolution, when the leader – Father Gapon, a priest – was exposed (after his death) to be a tsarist spy, people’s faith began to wane. The close ties of the royals, the nobility and the landowners with the church also worked to reduce the popularity of religion by 1917.

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