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RUSSIA IN THE MODERN WORLD

I will describe the lives of three types of people: The Royal Family, The workers and The Peasants between the periods of 1896-1917 in Russia. I will start off by describing the life and the ways in which the Royal Family lived.
When Nicholas II became Tsar in 1894 he didn’t know how to run Russia. He was shy and weak and his wife was very overpowering. When Nicholas II became Tsar he was Russia’s autocrat and he had total power. Being the autocrat meant that he could make laws by himself and appoint his government often they would be close friends from his court circle. Being an autocracy is the opposite of what we live in, a democracy, where the autocrat made all laws without consultation with any form of parliament. Unlike, a democracy where a parliament has to take a vote on passing laws.
To carry out his orders Nicholas relied on the army where the officers where mainly nobles, the secret police, the Okhrana or Protective Section, who would jail anyone for speaking...

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