Why is Russian Empires authoritarianism considered untenable?

Really, when in 2019 without approval of the monarch there cannot pass not one law and he is the head of the Commonwealth countries which part copes directly through governor generals.

At least in Canada (where I live), the last time a governor general even tried to pull rank on parliament was in the 1920's, and even then it was enough to become a scandal. The overwhelming majority of the Queen's (and GG's) powers exist on paper only.
 
But that “set-up” fundamentally changed after 1905. It can be argued that it did not change enough, all the way to the British System, but it was (AFAIK) in line with Germany and jumping all the way to all-powerful parliamentary system would not necessarily work in a country with no history of parliamentarism. OTL personages of the Duma were quite unimpressive and what they and their likes were capable of had been illustrated by the Provisional Government. It strongly reminded “The Addams family” (old miniseries) where Gomez Addams is bragging about his business experience: “I took charge of a failing company and within half a year led it into a bankruptcy” :)

The system could evolve but for this it needed time and an absence of the major idiocies like wwi.

I could agree with this. But I think it's hard to avoid WWI altogether.
 
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