waht are the changes and continuies of Russia between 1750 and 1914?

Question

optional: state cause for change and reason for continuity

Answer 1

Probably the greatest problem with Russia during those centuries was that it didn't change enough to adapt to a modern world situation, not in farming, military nor in industrialization. Sure the country expanded to the Black Sea and the Pacific Ocean, even into Alaska, but the basic fabric of society hadn't changed all that much. The serfs still tilled the soil in near slave-like conditions, the nobility still did too little and were rewarded too much. It wasn't a good environment and therefore the communists took advantage. Only P. Stolypin had a chance to turn it all around, and he was killed by an anarchist in the pay of the state police. Weird.