By 1914 (First World War), was the tsarist regime stable or collapsing?

Question

Explain?

Answer 1

Just about collapsed. there was already heavy rumblings of revoloution in the country. The Czar had looked at possible reforms greater than what his father had already installed, but it did not help that his wife was very influential at court and hen pecked her husband into not giving so much power away.
The Duma set up after 1916 if brought into place 6 years before after the first real troubles began could have changed Russian affairs enough that the war may well have not started, the peasant and land owners reforms could have been underway and the world would never have seen Communisim.
Unfortunatley the Duma never found its voice as the war caused too many problems and the people where very anti war after the heavy losses of its fighting force. So once the Germans saw that there was hope to produce Lenin into the country and destabalize the regieme even more they felt it was a positive move.

Answer 2

I think the tsarist regime in Russia was teetering on collapse the Loss of the Russo Japanese war in 1905 and the loss of Port Arthur and the revolution of 1905. World War I brought more of the internal weaknesses to the tsarist regime which eventually was caught up in scandal, desertion and a destruction of many Russian soldiers. The tsar had lost touch with the people and the tsarina was caught up in the curing of her son of hemoplilia to the point where she believed in a disreputable immoral cleric named Rasputin. By the beginning of the war the regime was collapsing and the tumult from the war pushed it into a speedy downward spiral.

Answer 3

Collapsing. The tsars had become more and more remote from the people. The economy was a shambles. Even the nobility didn't support the tsars anymore. And Russia was going through an enormous cultural shift in which the life of the common people was being embraced on all levels. It made the tsars seems irrelevant.

Answer 4

I guess it was collapsing because in 1917 came the Russian Revolution. Of course, World War I had a devistating effect on Russia.

Answer 5

Yes it did collapse, but 3 years after World War One. People said it waould collapse before the War, but it didn't. People are still debating on how this happened.

Answer 6

Collapsing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia

Answer 7

the tsarist regime was collapsing and the family were executed in Ekaterinburg in july 1918

Answer 8

Teetering on the brink of collapse. It nearly fell before WW1. The 1st world war merely destroyed whatever confidence still remained in the Czarist government since it was being routed by Germany.

Answer 9

It was already in trouble after the revolution of 1905 and WW1 finished it off especially as the Tsarina was german

Answer 10

it did collapse,the tzar and family were murdered by the revolutionarys.