Tsarina Alexandra Romanokov's Failure Of Russia

In conclusion to the fall of the Romanov dynasty, it is shown that Nicholas had the biggest impact of Russia becoming a communist country as he did not have a greater understanding on the way to run his country, he also didn’t take full responsibility for his people and the soldiers in WW1,

Soldiers lacked weapons, food, and sufficient communication. As the war continued, unrest of the Russian people grew (Voglsinger). The Romanov family was not completely disconnected from the war. The Romanov daughters worked diligently in the hospital wing of the palace aiding wounded soldiers, as well as keeping them company while healing (Yudina). In the middle of the Revolution all of the children fell ill with the measles, Anastasia being the last to catch the illness. The children were alone with their mother while Nicholas II was at the General Headquarters in Mogilev (Yudina). While he was there, Nicholas received war reports and met with Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzskii, a military leader (Raleigh). In attempt to not worry his family he hid the actual reason for being in Mogilev (Yudina). The Romanov family had been in control of Russia for three centuries until March 1917 when Nicholas II relinquished the throne hoping to prevent civil war (Biography.com). Following the abdication of the throne, Nicholas II returned to his family where they were under house arrest. In August the family decided it would be best to move to a small Siberian city, Tobolsk (Yudina). The family moved into their mansion and lived quiet lives rarely taking walks outside or to church. The Bolsheviks had taken control of Russia and Nicholas II was summoned to his trial in Moscow (Yudina). When Empress

The Grand Duchess Olga wrote in her journal: “…and he was wholly ignorant about governmental matters. Nicky had been trained as a soldier”. (Fiehn, T. 1996). Nicholas’ sister suggests that he was not ready due to his lack of training. Margot Tracey, daughter of a Russian industrialist declared in 1917, after Nicholas’ abdication “Everybody was fed up with the Tsar because they thought he was weak. When he abdicated there was great rejoicing everywhere. My parents opened champagne bottles and celebrated with friends.”.(White 1994 p.14) Margot shows her understanding of what was going on at the time and that Nicholas was very weak leader, although still a tyrant. Margot’s statement supports the hypothesis as it plainly says that the people did not like Nicholas as a leader due to how weak he was. Margot’s statement is further corroborated by Sergei Witte, a Russian Minister during Nicholas II rule “I pity the Tsar. I pity Russia. He is a poor and unhappy sovereign. What did he inherit and what will he leave? He is obviously a good and quite intelligent man, but he lacks will power, and it from that character that his state defects developed, that is, his defects as a ruler, especially an autocratic and absolute ruler.” (Russian Revolution Quotations 2015). These sources work together to support the fact that Nicholas II was responsible for his own downfall due to his weak character and that he was not properly prepared for the role. This caused

The First World War was seen as a devastating impact on Tsardom and is seen as the main reason for the fall of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917. “The effect of the war was

Empress Catherine the Great ruled Russia for approximately thirty years from 1762 to 1796 when she died. She was known throughout the world as an unusual ruler, having taken over the throne after the brutal death of her husband Peter the third. There she was made Empress of all Russia, this was unusual because instead of being made regent for her son they circumnavigated the rules and she was made Empress Regnant. During her time on the throne she made many radical and life changing decisions. She was a voracious reader and writer, often helping to translate others works into Russian. She herself was inspired by Voltaire, Diderot, and Montesquieu. All of which culminated in her greatest work “Great Instruction”, which was the beginning of basically all her future endeavors. Catherine the Great was an enlightened ruler who tried to bring about a new way of life in Russia, by allowing certain freedoms and educating the public.

In 1917 a great revolution would collapse Russia’s monarchy and extend the color of red throughout the world. During this time, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were instrumental in causing the grand collapse of the Russian government and the reformation into a communist state. The Russian revolution changed the world when it happened and I believe it changed the people of Europe after it occurred.

Tsar Nicholas II is thought to be personally responsible for the collapse of the Russian Monarchy. His nature wasn’t well suited for the role he held therefore he was an incompetent leader. Russia was undergoing many changes and was in early stages of industrialization. This was followed by an embarrassing string of defeats of which the Tsar was badly prepared. His unsuccessful involvement in the First World War added to the disappointment in the government’s incompetence and corruption. There were many opportunities for Russia to modernize but this would require political change, which the Tsar was unwilling to do. Nicholas had many opportunities throughout his reign to reform, but destroyed his last chance of survival.

One resource used for this investigation was Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, which describes the reign of Nicholas II. This source was published in 1967 in the United States, thus the book is a secondary source. Massie is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose work focuses on the Russian Romanovs. Massie’s alma mater includes Yale and Oxford University. The source is highly valuable in its extremely detailed and comprehensive research of nearly 600 pages, providing the thoughts of those in positions of power and interesting, insightful perspectives to the situation at the time. An analysis on connecting causes and effects are thorough and

The events that led to the horror that was the Red Terror began when the Romanovs could not afford to fight in World War 1. This of course led to the government printing large amounts of rubles, leading to inflation. Of course, many peasants were not happy with this because it made their income even closer to worthless than it had previously been. This is a key detail in why so many people Due to the poor state of Russia, the last tsar Nicholas II, was forced to fight on the front line and when he returned, he was then overthrown by the noblemen, which were led by Felix. The Provisional government, run by Kerensky, only lasted a handful of months before being overthrown in what has become known as Red October, though it is a strange misnomer

Assess the role of the Bolsheviks for the decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty.

One of the most interesting, hard-working and powerful people to grace the pages of history during the eighteenth century was Catherine II, Empress of Russia. Historians have not always been so kind to her memory, and all too often one reads accounts of her private life, ignoring her many achievements. The stories of her love affairs have been overly misinterpreted and can be traced to a handful of French writers in the years immediately after Catherine's death, when Republican France was fighting for its life against a coalition that included Russia.

The Russian Revolution is a widely studied and seemingly well understood time in modern, European history, boasting a vast wealth of texts and information from those of the likes of Robert Service, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Allan Bullock, Robert Conquest and Jonathan Reed, to name a few, but none is so widely sourced and so heavily relied upon than that of the account of Leon Trotsky, his book “History of the Russian Revolution” a somewhat firsthand account of the events leading up to the formation of the Soviet Union. There is no doubt that Trotsky’s book, among others, has played a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of the events of The Revolution; but have his personal predilections altered how he portrayed such paramount

During his time staying with the tsar and tsarina in Russia, it was reported by Xenia Alexandrovna, the Grand Duchess, that Rasputin had been sexually abusing the imperial daughters. She revealed that he is “always there, goes into the nursery, visits Olga and Tatiana while they are getting ready for bed, sits there talking to them and caressing them.” These implications arose to the public attention and caused great distress. Combined with the rumors of an affair between Rasputin and the tsarina Alexandra, the people of St. Petersburg started to question if his agenda truly was pure or not. It was also about this time that people “started to first speak of the emperor and empress with open animosity and contempt. The word “revolution” was uttered more openly and more often.” The trust that Nicholas and Alexandra were putting in Rasputin was ruining their relationship with the people of Russia, the relationship they had hoped to fix by bringing in Rasputin. Because of this, “an anti-dynastic feeling was on the increase and the secret police were picking up widespread rumors of an impending palace coup.” Nicholas was losing his grip on the loyalty of his people fast all because of his nefarious

Catherine the Great was the German wife of Peter III. She corresponded actively with Voltaire and other prominent eighteenth-century thinkers, and paid lip service to their liberal ideas; but she did little to reform or modernize Russia. She introduced such western ideas as pleased her, at the same time increasing Russian autocracy and military power. In addition, she extended Russia's boundaries southward and westward. Catherine joined with Austria and Prussia in three partitions that completely eliminated independent Poland.

The First World War became the Tsars worst nightmare. Russia joined the war in many ways to keep peoples minds of Russia’s backwardness and badly run government, and onto the war effort itself. But within the first year of the war people’s minds began to wander away from troop moral and toward the Tsar and his control.