Question by Inside of You: What was the reasons for the fall of the Tsar in Russia?
Did Rasputin have anything to do with it?
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Answer by Irisabella
Rasputin collaborated with Tsarina Alexandra(from Germany, their enemy) while the Tsar fought in WWI, they took care of the domestic policies, and he was deeply hated by the people so that depends on your own interpretation. He died in 1916, a year before the Tsar abdicated, which kind of removes him from the equation. His presence did cause the people to dislike the Tsar family though.
The Tsar himself was pretty useless, using the ideas of his ministers(ideas which he personally disliked and only went along with) and doing little himself. He was weak mentally, his wife being the dominant personality in the relationship. The Tsar was not liberal when that was what the people wanted. Take the Duma or the October manifesto for example, he only gave a little, though not enough.
Also, Alexis, the heir, suffered from a blood illness(which Rasputin apparently could battle) and was not a good match for the throne. There’s also the inflation of the time to consider. The people were poor, they were in a war they didn’t want to be in(they were loosing and they blamed the Tsar) and their country was poorly led. They were lacking a needed industrialization. Do you know why the revolution started? Women came together and caused a uprising, the army refused to shoot their wives and they were not stopped. Lenin was in Switzerland at the time.
Anyway, the Tsar abdicated because he was disliked and he knew it. Didn’t help though as he and his family were executed a year later.
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Somebody says
-No, Vladmir Lenin and Karensky overthrew Tsar Nicholas during WWI
Spellbound says
Nicholas II was an autocrat, in other words he ruled by himself, no parliament, only advisors and ministers to carry out his orders. Unfortunately for him, and for Russia, he was vain, stupid, overly religious and badly advised.
His downfall began when he lost the 1904 Russo-Japanese War; this led to the 1905 Revolution, which led to the institution of a parliament, the Duma. Nicholas allowed it to meet, and then politically neutered it, robbing it of its authority and powers.
He could have weathered this storm, perhaps, if he hadn't plunged Russia into WWI. The war was a disaster for Russia, and, when the he took personal command of the army – the people blamed him for the way that the war was turning out.
Eventually the resentment turned from anger to hatred and, in February 1917, the women of Petrograd marched on the Winter Palace, factory workers and soldiers came out on strike in support, and Nicholas abdicated.
He was arrested on charges of treason, and held in various locations until he ended up, with his family in the Ipatiev house in Ekaterinburg in Western Siberia. Here, on July 17 1918 he, along with his entire family and their servants were taken to the basement and executed.
The Russian Empire became the Soviet Union in 1922, so Nicholas was the Tsar of Russia.
Rasputin contributed very little to Nicholas's downfall, other than to alienate many of the aristocracy. If Rasputin had never come to Petrograd the February and October Revolutions would have still happened in exactly the same way.
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nic… http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nicholas.htm
Ahmed says
It is history that for every rise there is fall. As long as the nation and dynasties constructive percentage was more than that of destruction, they rose to glory and continued to be the super powers. Babylonia, Pharos of Egypt, Romans, Iranians, Syrians, Yemen, Arabs, Otmanians of Turkey, Tsar then British were once the super powers. As long as they ruled with justice, peace, morality and ethics, values and righteousness and treated all citizens without any discrimination, they rose s super powers and remained till the destruction % was less. As the destruction percentage grew greater than construction percentage ,the super powers fell and then never rose again