What went wrong?
george v was shit desu
>>81404574
perceived as incompetent in both economic and military affairs.
jews pushed a communist revolution on his working class
Were the jews responsible?
>>81404574
Imperial Germany exported political dissidents back to Russia to topple the empire.
Which he enabled via a horrible use of strategic resources.
And a horrific waste of human lives.
Largely caused by how he enabled and was part of a pompous, effete aristocracy.
WW1 was a shit show caused and guided by a bunch of puffy imbeciles.
>>81404860
I would make love to the woman on the far left.
>>81404574
inbreding
>>81404574
He's a saint, so nothing
>>81404860
yes
>>81405199
Dubs of historical accuracy.
>>81404860
Yes they were.
>>81404574
The same thing wrong with us, lulled into a sense of false security and safety, unaware of the people who were plotting to take over.
His reign was a heaven compared to what would come afterward. If only his father had conceded more into a constitutional monarchy that wouldn't have happened.
>>81404574
It was a coincidence.
Led a country to collapse and military defeat. Literally everything he did wrong.
>>81404574
He had self-esteem issues. His father, Alexander III, was dedicated to keeping peace so a lot of critics viewed him as weak. During Nicolas' rule critics also accused him of being weak and indecisive. He wanted instead to be remembered like his grandfather who defeated the turks in the 70's. So during the July crisis he decided to show strength by mobilizing the Army which the Austrians, and then Germans, took as an act of war.
Basically Nicky was an insecure fuck up who killed his own Empire.
Alexander III intended to start "Training" Nicholas in statesmanship when he was about 30, but Alexander became ill and died when Nicholas was only 26. Having suddenly been handed absolute power of the largest empire on earth at such a young age made him nervous and frightful, so he basically tried to just copy his fathers policies right at the time when world politics were drastically changing. He was an absolute autocrat at a time when despotism was simply no longer going to work.
By all accounts, he was a very kind, polite man who just wanted to be with his family; Problem was that as kind as he was, he was a bad Tsar. He more or less caused his own downfall.
>>81404574
>Unstable empire filled with ethnic minorities
>Poor as shit
>Get involved in a bloody war
>Tsar replaces senior most military commander with himself thus taking blame for the high casulaties of the war
>Never back Brusilov's offensive until it is too late
Honestly its a miracle the Russian Empire lasted as long as it did, the fucking empire was a cancer patient waiting to die. The only success of the Russian Empire in WW1 was that it wasn't the Austro-Hungarian Empire.