Russian revolution qoutes

TSAR Nicholas II crowned and bursting into tears cause hes not ready

“Whats going to happen to me and to all of Russia? I am not prepared to a be a Tsar. I never wanted to become one. I know nothing of the business of Rulling. I have no idea of even how to talk to the ministers”

TSAR Nicholas Good man bad ruler

Orlando Figues: Nicholas “Clearly lacked the necessary qaulities to rule”

Richard Pipes:
“Incompetent in many ways”

“Nicholas II fell not because he was hated, But because he was held in contempt”

Leon Trotsky

“Nicholas II inherited from his ancestors not only a great empire, but also a revolution. And they did not bequeath him one qauility which would have made him capable of governing an empire or even a province or a country”

NIcholas the II contrubiting to Problems, Orlando Figes

“Nicholas was the source of all the problems, If there was a vacuum of power at the center of the rulling system, then he was the empty space. In a sense Russia gained in him the worst of both worlds a Tsar determined to rule from the throne yet quite incapable of excersicing power