!historychads !anticommunists what's our assessment? Incompetent moron? Bloody tyrant? A product of his time? I already know our resident commies will say he got what he deserved. His wife was extremely r-slurred, ignored all of based granny Victoria's advices and was probably boned by a creepy peasant.
!neolibs was Sergei Witte /our/ guy? Was Stolypin taken from us too soon?
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He was too soft to act as brutally as he sometimes did and too brutal to be as soft as he often was.
IMO and ironically he would have been a great constitutional monarch.
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He would make fine PM in 2020s.
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He definitely would, and that's what's so weird about him. He wasn't interested in ruling, he liked ceremony and pageantry, yet he clanged to autocracy until the very end and resisted any modest reform.
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I head his advisors were to blame.
Also let's not ignore that giving commies even a finger
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Thats becouse aristocaric elite was obsesed with their place in sun. They didnt want social turmoil. Just keep what was their.
His grandfather, alexander 2. Faced multiple assasination attempts because his reforms for russian system. Nick 2 figured out best way to govern was to make as little waves as possible. But doing so he made lower classes angry.
His choises were. Reforms that will make upper class angry or not do anything that will make lower classes angry.
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Nicky genuinely believed that his royal powers were a literal gift from God, such that Nicky had no right to give away
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It is a recurring theme among unremarkable monarchs. The “divine right of kings” ideology was developed in the 16th and 17th centuries by unscrupulous, power-hungry monarchs like Henry VIII, James I and Louis XIV, and unlike Nicky those guys knew quite well what they were doing. Then there was also stuff like court etiquette and ceremony whose significance Louis XIV understood fully and used as a means to consolidate his power.
The problem with successor monarchs is that they're raised under the system and they don't understand what's going, why the ceremonies are important, etc. They just straight out believe in the system's propaganda.
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