QUOTES!!

Modernisation - The Great Spurt

‘The collapse of the autocracy was rooted in a crisis of modernisation.’ - Smith

Russo-Japanese War

‘a little victorious war to stem the tide of revolution’ - Plehve

Bloody Sunday

“There is no God any longer. There is no Tsar.” - Father Gapon

“their faith in the Tsar that was riddled by bullets ” - Soviet History CPSU

1905 Revolution

“The monarchy's fate hung by a thread” Robert Service

October Manifesto

“All is given but nothing is given” - Trosky

Fundemental Laws

“The All-Russian Emperor possesses the supreme autocratic power” - Fundemental laws article 4.

Duma

• “Curse the Duma. It’s all Witte’s fault.” - Tsar Nicholas II

Stolypin

• “Suppression first and then, and only then, reform.” - Stolypin

July 1906 he was promoted to Prime Minister

WW1

‘This is not war, it is slaughter.’ - WW1 officer

“Treason to the Russian cause.” - Rodzianko

WW1 homefront

“Ministerial Leapfrogging” (Lynch)

February Revolution

• “If it is necessary .. that I step aside, I am prepared to do so.” - Tsar Nicholas II

• ‘1905 was child’s play” - chief of police

Nicky

Figes - “Nicholas was the source of all the problems”

“I am not prepared to be a Tsar.” - NICKY!!