how succesful was the tsarist regime
How successfully did the Tsarist regime deal with the difficulties of ruling Russia between 1906 and 1914?
Ruling Russia between 1906 and 1914 was very difficult: the government was not democratic, peasants and workers were extremely angry because of the living conditions in the countryside and the cities, and political opposition to the Tsar was growing. To stop a revolution from occurring, the Tsar introduced a new regime. In the short term the Tsarist regime successfully dealt with some of the problems it faced, however in the long term the regime created more problems than it solved. But did the regime help him stop a revolution? Or did it create even more problems for him?
The Tsarist regime was moderately successful in terms of dealing with the problems in the government; they solved some problems in the short term but created more problems in the long term. An example of this is the Tsar created the Duma in 1905, this helped deal with the difficulty of ruling Russia in the short term because he gained the support that he lost middle classes by giving them a say in the government. This pleased the middle class because they believed they had gained an influence in Russian government, all the while Nicholas didn’t actually listen to them, he just pretended to. Nicholas was never interested in democracy seeing as he was an autocratic ruler. However in the long term he created more serious problems. By repeatedly dissolving the duma (e.g., in 1906,1907 and 1912) and by only giving them minor laws to debate (e.g. Setting up laundry) the Tsar destroyed the trust the middle classes had in him thus increasing opposition. There for the Tsar was successful, but only to a very limited extent, because the problems he created in the long term were even bigger than the problems he solved in the short term. The Tsarist regime was also unsuccessful at dealing with difficulties in the countryside’s and cities because they only solved some of the smaller difficulties
Ruling Russia between 1906 and 1914 was very difficult: the government was not democratic, peasants and workers were extremely angry because of the living conditions in the countryside and the cities, and political opposition to the Tsar was growing. To stop a revolution from occurring, the Tsar introduced a new regime. In the short term the Tsarist regime successfully dealt with some of the problems it faced, however in the long term the regime created more problems than it solved. But did the regime help him stop a revolution? Or did it create even more problems for him?
The Tsarist regime was moderately successful in terms of dealing with the problems in the government; they solved some problems in the short term but created more problems in the long term. An example of this is the Tsar created the Duma in 1905, this helped deal with the difficulty of ruling Russia in the short term because he gained the support that he lost middle classes by giving them a say in the government. This pleased the middle class because they believed they had gained an influence in Russian government, all the while Nicholas didn’t actually listen to them, he just pretended to. Nicholas was never interested in democracy seeing as he was an autocratic ruler. However in the long term he created more serious problems. By repeatedly dissolving the duma (e.g., in 1906,1907 and 1912) and by only giving them minor laws to debate (e.g. Setting up laundry) the Tsar destroyed the trust the middle classes had in him thus increasing opposition. There for the Tsar was successful, but only to a very limited extent, because the problems he created in the long term were even bigger than the problems he solved in the short term. The Tsarist regime was also unsuccessful at dealing with difficulties in the countryside’s and cities because they only solved some of the smaller difficulties