Russia was an autocratic nation and it was believed that it was his divine rite to rule, like his father before him. However, Nicholas was actually a poor leader in a backwards and pre-industrilaised country. Russian failures in the Russo-Japanese War saw an earlier revolution in , only to be quashed by Nicholas' admissions into creating a representative government. By passing some power to the people it questioned his divinity as a ruler and saw the people begin to demand more was done.
This came at a time where peasants, or serfs, had previously had no rights, and were taxed heavily to fund the Tsar's vast armies. As a result, serfs would often pass over much of their stock in food and suffered from famine unable to live on what was left.
After seemingly sacrificing some of his power to the people, Nicholas went back on his word to remove the power and use of the government he had allowed to exist. Georgy Manaev. Library of Congress; Russia beyond; Public domain. Who and what brought the last Emperor to leaving the throne and why this abdication spelled the end of the Russian monarchy. What preceded the abdication? Nicholas II looking out the window of his personal train Public domain. General Nikolay Ruzskiy Public domain. State Historical Museum.
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They were proved badly wrong. This ushered in 74 years of Communist rule in what became the Soviet Union. Historians have long debated the causes of the two revolutions in Russia in Were they the consequence largely of the crisis created by the First World War? Or were they the culmination of longer-term tensions resulting from several decades of social and economic modernisation, while the tsars tried to cling onto their power?
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