NATURE OF NICHOLAS II REGIME
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- Created on: 04-04-17 14:06
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- Nature of Nicholas II's regime and effectiveness of his rule
- Personality
- Limited understanding of extreme poverty
- Relied heavily on small number of advisors
- Tutored by Pobedonostsev
- Supported by Council of Ministers
- Tsar's beliefs
- Keeping absolute power-divine right
- Maintaining Tsarist system
- Did not support political reform
- Tsar's dictatorship
- 1894-1905, refused Parliament
- Relied on Okhrana to maintain security
- Supported censorship
- Willing to use army and Cossacks to control people
- Encouraged pogroms against the Jews
- Supported the establishment of the 'Black Hundreds'
- Weaknesses in the political system
- Slow decisions
- Bribery and corruption of civil servants widespread
- Tsar could be indecisive
- Impact of Tsar's rule
- Refused to grant reform
- Growing frustration
- Many supported political opposition
- Nicholas II and Tsarina
- Tsarina German-could influence Tsar
- Nicholas II and Orthodox Church
- Very important role in Russia
- Church promoted that Tsar had been chosen by God
- Many started to question the right of the Tsar to rule over them
- Personality
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