The following end-of-regime leaders faced tremendous challenges and ultimately failed to overcome them. In all cases, the result was that the regimes completely collapsed and the country plunged into dissolution and turmoil. Many historians believe that these situations, while difficult, were not entirely insurmountable.
In your opinion, which leader's situation was most surmountable?
1 King Louis XVI of France (1774-1792)
2 Empress Dowager Cixi of China (1861-1908)
3 Emperor Nicolas II of Russia (1894-1917)
4 General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of USSR (1985-1991)
Also since the poll doesn't allow it, please rank the situations from easiest to hardest to surmount if you can.