West European Studies

Explain the primary problems surrounding Czar Nicholas II in the last five years of his reign.

Under his reign, but rather outside his direct intervention, Russia experienced a rapid industrialization process (which gave rise to important core workers) and strove to extend its influence in Asia rivaling the Western powers in the imperialist race (intervention Sino-Japanese War of 1896, base of Port Arthur in 1898, occupation of Manchuria in 1900, distribution of Persia into spheres of influence with Britain in 1907).

Attempts to exert a decisive influence in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as head of a Pan-Slavist movement led to conflicts and international tensions multiples, under Russian alignment with Serbia against the interests of Austria-Hungary, but after suffering a first diplomatic defeat in the Bosnian crisis (1908), the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 finally ended with the Russian control over the Balkan peninsula.

Misguided and isolated from national opinion, Nicholas II left him with his paralysis that fester major problems affecting the tsarist regime: the poverty of the peasantry and land hunger, social tensions and unrest revolutionary aspirations of freedom and democracy reformist intellectuals ... In 1905 led the country into a war in which Japan was defeated, the popular discontent erupted in a revolution in the same year, before which gave no response other than military repression. Both events were the preliminaries to the final crisis in which the monarchy would perish: in 1914 Russia again engages in a foreign war for the unprepared or military sense economically or politically, but Nicholas cannot be held liable for major decisions of the time, it was a toy in the hands of court powers.

Successive defeats against the modern German army eventually demoralize the country and dismantle the structures of the state, facilitating the February Revolution of 1917 that overthrew the czar and established a republic in Russia. Nicholas II abdicated and left to stop without offering resistance to the provisional government of Lvov and Kerensky. He was confined with the rest of the royal family in the town of Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk current) in the Urals, after the victory of the Second Russian Revolution of 1917 (October Revolution), which brought to power the Bolsheviks Lenin and led to a communist dictatorship, the czar was executed along with his family, by decision of the Ural Soviet.

Explain the primary effects Rasputin had on both the ministers and the royal family.

Siberian healer who was confidant of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, Grigory Rasputin is one of the most enigmatic figures in Russian history. All that is known about him modern historians is not based on documentary evidence, and the eyewitness. And since these stories are passed "by word of mouth", the effect is likely damaged the phone.

It is known that Grishka Rasputin was born July 29, 1871 in the village of Pokrovskoye Tyumen region. As the place of his birth was virtually inaccessible for the majority want, then the life of Gregory Rasputin, the home remained only fragmentary and inaccurate information, the source of which was largely his ...