WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tsarist autocracy (Russian: , transcr. tsarskoye samoderzhaviye), also called Tsarism, was a form of autocracy (later absolute monarchy) specific to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nicholas indeed understood his role as an absolute monarch and was unwilling and unable to adapt it to the rapidly changing and modernising society. He became tsar with a reluctant sense of duty rather than any great enthusiasm.

Detailed explanation-3: -Russia was an autocracy and was ruled by the Tsar. The Tsar, especially Tsar Nicholas II was a self-willed, corrupt, oppressive ruler. He ignored public welfare as a result of which the conditions of the peasants and workers had also become very deplorable. The workers and peasants both were divided.

Detailed explanation-4: -The tsar was absolute and unlimited in his authority, which was subject to neither constitutional restraints nor parliamentary institutions. He ruled with the help of a bureaucratic caste, subject to no external controls and above the law, and the army, one of whose main tasks was maintaining internal order.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: Russia had an autocratic monarchy, or an absolute monarchy, with no constitution or state body that restricted the power of the Tsar (emperor). Russian emperors were, in theory, bound to obey God’s will, and their role as head of both state and Orthodox church reflected this theocratic bent.

Detailed explanation-6: -Economic collapse generated by the war, the aggravation of poverty and distress of the masses, the growth of antiwar attitudes and general dissatisfaction with the autocracy, all of this led to a revolutionary uprising in February 1917.