HeavyWeaponsGuy
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All true. However, Russia was in a very precarious time in its history. On the surface Russia was fine but dig a little deeper and you'll see that Russia's in deep trouble. Removing Nicholas II and Alexandra would go very far in stabilizing the situation. If Russia could get farther in its industrialization and manage to stabilize the Government then its certainly possible that we could see a Russian Monarchy today.
Pretty much, in the long-run the Russian Empire would have had to deal with the same problems as other empires of its sort (i.e. being a multinational empire in an age of nationalism, and the inherent contradictions that that entails), but I entirely agree with you. The system was in an extremely vulnerable transition period, but an incompetent ruler and an even more disastrous involvement in the Great War pretty much brought that vulnerable system down.
In the end, I think things like Russian nationalism would still have been a big issue though. The Russian Empire feared almost all forms of nationalism, even that of the people for whom it was named, because it was inflexible and it meant that traditional arrangements couldn't always work out any more. In the Baltic, for example, the Tsars were traditionally quite happy to use the Baltic German nobility as administrators and enforcers of Russian rule, but the advent of nationalism amidst the Russian people during a war with Germany turned the Baltic Germans from a reliable, valuable component of the empire into a potentially disloyal enemy in the eyes of the people.