Why did the Tsar fall from Power?

The year 1917 was an extremely important date in Russian history. For hundreds of years Russia had been ruled under an autocracy but following several years of discontent and social unrest this all changed and the old Romanov dynasty was replaced with a new Russia of democracy and equality. There are a number of important reasons why the Tsar fell from power which I will now explain.

Firstly Tsar Nicholas was not a very good ruler. This was not helped by the fact that he had a very large and difficult country to rule. Russia had very poor communication, a backward economy, many different types of people and barely used their natural resources. These only aided Nicholas’s poor ruling and added to the fact that all of the Tsar’s ministers worked separately rather than as a team, this meant that before the revolution, Russia was not in a very stable condition.

The Tsar made a huge mistake when he sacked the Grand Duke Nickolai and made himself Commander in Chief of the army. Th...