Oh good grief....Well obviosuly the pepole in russia wanted to continue the war, its only Lenin and co who got sent by the Germans to like stop the war and stuff
Really, go and do some actual research for yourself.
Oh good grief....Well obviosuly the pepole in russia wanted to continue the war, its only Lenin and co who got sent by the Germans to like stop the war and stuff
That seems to a very low bar.ask alexmilman, he knows abour Russia more than me.
To say that the monarchy and nobility got all the wealth is untrue, as like iirc alexmilman said the food of the Russian monarchy family is bad, and little servings, aside from all their land iirc is now for sale to peasants who can afford it. IIRC 90% of all land in Russia pre revolution was owned by peasants
I've mentioned this but the details of the dismal science seem unpopular.You badly misspelt France there. Probably time to look into the Russian bonds market's structure, the concept of "semi-peripheral" states in "world systems theory" and the role of French capital (particularly surplus, ie: imperial capital) in Russian modernisation.
The Russian system of "modernisation" bred civil unrest, political, social and economic. Look at the strikes and violence before the Great War erupted.It seems to me, that progress, was getting there. Slow and steady wins the race.
Sometimes slow and steady is not enough. Especially when it is that slow. I can use my family history under the Romanovs and Soviets to illustrate the point: they were digging dirt in the bumfucknowhere in North-Western part of European Russia for almost three hundred years. ~12 generations as basically slaves and then another three generations as formally not slaves but still digging in the dirt under constant threat of starvation and crushing collective debt.It seems to me, that progress, was getting there. Slow and steady wins the race.
I don't think it did, and there is every possibility the system could easily have limped along until Nicholas dies, which easily could have been another 20 years. Without the pressures of WWI, and the mass conscription and hardship at home which went along with that, which simultaneously turned the people, the nobility, the capitalists, and the army against the tsar. Nicholas II quite adeptly turned everyone except his good buddies (ie sycophants) against him that it truly is astounding. The real test will be who succeeds Nicholas. Because if they're as bad as he is things are going to get much worse. If one of his more reform-minded relatives took over (whih will require his son to die, not exactly unlikely) then the tsar's position can be maintained most likely. But with actual say given to people who are important to the regime and its modernization.2. Whom? The Russian system was going to collapse, regardless of the Great War. Quite possibly the war delayed matters.
I am pleased your family was able to advance. I am sorry the price of that was losing their religous faith and being monitered by the NKVD.Sometimes slow and steady is not enough. Especially when it is that slow. I can use my family history under the Romanovs and Soviets to illustrate the point: they were digging dirt in the bumfucknowhere in North-Western part of European Russia for almost three hundred years. ~12 generations as basically slaves and then another three generations as formally not slaves but still digging in the dirt under constant threat of starvation and crushing collective debt.
So what happened when the whole rotten edifice of the monarchy came crashing down? First Soviet generation (my grandfather) - geologist. Second Soviet generation (my father) - electronics engineer. And I don't think that my family line suddenly became smarter or more enterprising in these last few generations. It was just that the previous socio-economic model never actually allowed them to realize their potentials condemning them to subsistence farming for hundreds of years.
Why not just have a proper republic and be done with it?Could we get them to kick each other in the testicles, while someone else forms a constitutional monarchy?
On one hand you have three hundred years of slavery. On the other hand you have half a century of gradually easing political repression that predominately didn't even target the poorest categories of Russian peasantry (who were a dominant majority). And of course Soviets never took away anyone's faith. Because faith is something that is in your heart and not something that is peddled by bearded men in fancy dresses.I am pleased your family was able to advance. I am sorry the price of that was losing their religous faith and being monitered by the NKVD.
It's hard to even say he tried, considering how painfully indecisive he was.But yeah, it seems that the best thing anyone can say about his reign is, “well, he tried
I am not saying it was paradise by any means. I believe religious persucution is dangerous and counter productive.On one hand you have three hundred years of slavery. On the other hand you have half a century of gradually easing political repression that predominately didn't even target the poorest categories of Russian peasantry (who were a dominant majority). And of course Soviets never took away anyone's faith. Because faith is something that is in your heart and not something that is peddled by bearded men in fancy dresses.
The nostalgia about Imperial Russian past is outright Russian equivalent of US 'lost causers' basically to a T. And it is about as vile.
The Tsars were perfectly willing to persecute Jews, Catholics, and Protestants for not belonging to the church the Tsar wanted them to follow.I am not saying it was paradise by any means. I believe religious persucution is dangerous and counter productive.
Don't forget the genocide of the Circassians in the Caucasus. While the Russian Empire treated the Muslims of Central Asia fairly well, they were brutal in the Caucasus.The Tsars were perfectly willing to persecute Jews, Catholics, and Protestants for not belonging to the church the Tsar wanted them to follow.
i knew about Jews What happened to the Catholics?
This is definitely true.I am not saying it was paradise by any means. I believe religious persucution is dangerous and counter productive.
Oh dear. If only his Father hadn't been posioned by Alexander II's murder.
An argument could be made that Antisemitism In Russia, was starting to, or would have, become more race based and pseudo scientific with the growth of right wing mass politics, including the Black Hundreds. Speaking of the Black Hundreds, Nicholas the II's failure to capitalize on the emergence of reactionary mass politics, despite his own approval for thm (including approval of pogroms) shows his political ineptitude.Ideally, no... the antisemitism in the Russian Empire was primarily religious in nature, and theoretically, if a Jew were to convert to Orthodoxy, that person would officially cease to be a Jew. This wasn't always honoured in practice though, as Jewish converts and their descendants still faced some real, though "unofficial" discrimination, as in the case of Sergei Witte, whose wife was a convert from Judaism...