However, due to his poor decisions and leadership skills, there were numerous events such as Bloody Sunday and World War I that played a key role in the fall of Nicholas II and the Romanov family. Tsar Nicholas II was a firm believer in autocracy and orthodoxy due to the way his grandfather, Alexander II, ruled in the 1800s. ... The Russo-Japanese war was a strategic move by Nicholas II to distract his people from the domestic problems that existed within the nation during 1904. He believed winning the war would regain trust between him and his people and recreate that forgotten sense of nati...

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The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in March 1917, was a result of numerous significant factors. ... Tsar Nicholas II lack of leadership and poor decisions was an underlying cause of his abdication. ... As shown above Tsar Nicholas II was not a popular form of government among Russia. ... On the 15th of March 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated from the throne. ... War communism was during civil war in 1918. ...

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Was Nicholas II, the last Tsar to rule Russia responsible for the uprising of the Russian Revolution? The causes of the Russian Revolution can be traced back even before Nicholas II acceded the throne. ... The following paragraphs will explain my reasons why Nicholas II was partially responsible in causing the Russian Revolution. In 1894 Nicholas II took helm of the throne from his father Alexander III, who died at an early age on Nov 1 1894. ... The icing on the cake that caused people to have a revolution was the First World War which took place right on Russia's western doorstep. ...

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Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896-1917. ... During World War I, when the Allies bullied Russia to get back into the war after their first retreat, they seemed to think of Russia as cowards. ... If losing a war isn't enough to give people of a nation an inferiority complex, nothing is. ... No one believed the war was a noble cause to fight for. ... Russia had been torn apart politically by a weak Emperor, festering with indecision, and socio- economically with World War I, class wars, and the increasing state of industrialization's unrest and bread lines. ...

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The first major reason motivating Alexander II to emancipate the serfs were Russia's experience in the Crimean War and the rising number of peasant revolts. . ... By the end of the war in 1856, Russia's losses totaled 600,000 men. The war showed Russia could not seriously contend with the other European powers. ... When the serfs heard the document Alexander II drafted, they were crushed. ... Alexander II was known as "The Liberator" among the grateful serfs. ...

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The unpopularity of the Tsar was exacerbated by the humiliation in the Russo-Japanese war, and ultimately the spark that started the active part of the Revolution was the massacre at Bloody Sunday. ... Tsar Nicholas II was not a strong and wise leader that Russia needed and his unwillingness to show change, maintaining Tsarism was the only resolute principle that that the Tsar had. ... In 1904, Japan went to war with Japan, with Nicholas thinking that a swift, decisive victory would boost morale and silence growing number of critics to the Tsar's government. ... This crushing defeat, fa...

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The Romanov Dynasty fell about half way through World War 1, and there were many factors that attributed to this. ... I know nothing of the business of ruling' Tsar Nicholas the II. ... The Tsar saw World War 1 as a chance to restore Russia's faith in him and regain the belief that he was sent from God. ... But World War 1 was a disaster for Russia, with the only thing Nicholas gaining being shame and defeat. ... In conclusion, the Romanovs were destined to fail when Tsar Nicholas II came into power, as he was such a poor leader, as proven in the reasons above....

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Alexander II was the first to recognise this and in 1861 he granted Emancipation to the Serfs. ... This occured under the reign of the last Tsar, Nicholas II. ... When war with Japan was impending, Nicholas saw it as an opportunity to rally loyalty to the empire once more. ... The defeat in this war and the expense it incurred were direct causes of the revolution which occured just a few weeks later. ...

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Thesis: While the existing problems with the Tsarist regime and the incompetent leadership of Tsar Nicholas II were key factors of the February Revolution of 1917, the disastrous consequences of Russia's involvement in the First World War in 1914 were what made the uprising inevitable. ... However, Russia's humiliating loss to Britain and France in the Crimean War in 1856 signaled its relapse to a huge but weak nation. ... The peasants' frustration became evident in Alexander II's assassination, which was the last of seven unsuccessful attempts. ... Indeed, he was in clo...

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Under the regimes' of Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicolas II to an extent, terror was not used as extremely as the likes of Lenin and Stalin in the later period of 1900-1950. ... The establishment of the October manifesto under Tsar Nicholas II was an attempt to re-establish support from the masses. ... Additionally the defeat of Russia in the World War, increased levels of discontent, reducing the chances of sustainability in regards to the Imperial system. ... Alternatively it can be argued that the Purges in the 1930's just before war are evidence of where terror was used and...

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As mentioned before General Milyutin was a big supporter of reform and this was because he believed that emancipation could help to create a more professional army as seen by western powers such as Britain who, along with other nations, had defeated Russia in the Crimean war which ended in 1856. ... Alexander had been crowned while Russia was being defeated in the Crimean war and this had shown how ineffective her military was which meant that reform, through emancipation as well as other more detailed military reform, was essential. ...

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The terrible defeat of Russia in the Crimean War in 1855 and 1856 exposed weaknesses of Russia's various organizations. The road to the Russian Revolution began with the end of the Crimean War in 1855. ... This situation was made worse by the onset of World War I. Russia's backward position relative to the West, its lack of arms, poor training, and corruption in the high levels of government and the army translated into such military losses that Tsar Nicholas II decided to take direct control of the . In February of that year, demonstrators took the opportunity to set up their own ...

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The full modernization of Russia has happened step by step, however if it wasn't for Russia defeat in the Crimea war then cause to change to modernize Russia would be later on in the future then in 1861 during Alexander II's emancipation of the serf. ... The Crimea war revealed Russia weakness and the importance to modernize to win future wars. ... Happening at the same time as the great world war 1914-1918, Russia however pulled out of the war, due to its unpopularity amongst the public. ... Cold war/ Korean War 1945-65- As a counterbalance of NATO, the Soviet Union made the Warsa...

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In his memoirs, Sergei Witte, the renowned minister of Alexander III and Nicholas II recorded his conversation with Nicholas" mother (Marie Feodorovna) whereby he asked, "You mean the sovereign does not have the character of an emperor?" ... The camarilla had strong connections with the police and was believed to be the ones who initiated the shootings on "bloody Sunday" and pushed the tsar to seizing lands in Manchuria leading to the Russo-Japanese war. ... Nicholas was indecisive and needed someone to push him to make his decisions thus during World War 1 he went to war unwillingly as those ...

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Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, had firm beliefs in the autocracy and their right to rule that derived from God. ... Tsar Nicholas II was never ready for the tasks that awaited him as the autocratic ruler of a vast empire. ... Nicholas II favoured ministers who gave him "distorted pictures of Russian life- . ... Tsar Nicholas II, acting in part on his wife's control, had limited every aspect of the Russian's lives. ... Primarily on the advice of himself and the Tsarina, "Nicholas made the disastrous decision to assume personal control of the war effort."" ...

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Some were political, others were social and economic, but they all had something in common - they all helped to dethrone Tsar Nicholas II. Russia in the early 20th century covered a huge area that was a large proportion of the Asian continent and one very powerful man, the Tsar Nicholas II, ruled it all. ... As the First World War continued into 1917, ordinary Russian people too were becoming downhearted, as their situation was getting worse. The army had been badly defeated in the war with more than two million killed, 2 million injured and a further 4 million taken prisoner. As the Tsar was...

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Petr Durnovo, a member of the Tsar Nicholas II's state council of senior advisors, offers a portrait of tsarist society and predicts social upheaval as the result of the difficulties of war with Germany. In his Memorandum of February 1914, he begs the Tsar not to go to war with imperial Germany and thoroughly describes to him what the outcome may be if war was to erupt between the two nations. ... Durnovo feels that because of the signing of the Anglo-Russian accord, (following the Russo-Japanese war) has put Russia in a messy position. ... It is quite clear throughout the document that...

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At the Paris Peace Conference in 1856 ended the war of Crimean. Later, Napoleon III and Cavour met to discuss war tactics on Austria. ... In 1859, Austrians declare war on Piedmont. ... With Emmanuel II as monarch and the Piedmontese Constitution of 1848 as the national charter. ... Posing as a defender of German nationalism, Prussia declared war on Denmark. ...

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Germany had this attitude of hope and expectancy because, by allowing people such as Lenin back to Russia, they could expect an end to the war with Russia and therefore fight only one front instead of two. ... When Tsar Nicholas the II abdicated from the throne, Russia was in turmoil, set against the backdrop of wide social disorder and economic corruption and inefficiency. ... The defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and the failure of the Duma to control Nicholas" inefficient rule both created misery amongst the Russian people. ... World War One provided this catalyst. Although accompanied by...

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Germany had this attitude of hope and expectancy because, by allowing people such as Lenin back to Russia, they could expect an end to the war with Russia and therefore fight only one front instead of two. ... When Tsar Nicholas the II abdicated from the throne, Russia was in turmoil, set against the backdrop of wide social disorder and economic corruption and inefficiency. ... The defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and the failure of the Duma to control Nicholas" inefficient rule both created misery amongst the Russian people. ... World War One provided this catalyst. Although accompanied by...

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Eastern Europe is a unique region in terms of language. Slavic languages are very similar in a number of ways – the alphabet, grammar and vocabulary are close to identical when comparing, for example, Ukrainian, Russian and Belarus languages. Borders separating the Slavic world are not exactly bou...

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Most importantly it was during the Great Embassy that Peter met Augustus II, who soon after rose to take the throne of Poland. It was the friendship between Augustus and Peter, which eventually led to the creation of the alliance against Sweden and eventually to the war in the North, which was possibly, Peter the Great's greatest attempt at cutting a window into Europe. ... Despite the speed and determination with which this war machine swung into action, and despite huge increases in recruitment the war against Sweden turned out to be a very long drawn out affair. ... From the bloody ...

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