Nicholas II - Who Could Have Done it Better?

Russian Rulers History Podcast

Mark Schauss

History, Putin, Ussr, Usa, War, Tsar, Belarus, Arts, Revolution, Social Sciences, Ukraine, Science, Crimea, Russia, Soviet

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🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Which previous Russian Ruler could have saved the Romanov's? We look at seven potentials. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/support

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0:00.0	And the The Welcome to Russian History Retold, episode 179. Nicholas II. Who could have done it better?
0:50.0	Last time I did a what-if episode on what would have happened had Vladimir Lenin lived a longer or shorter life.
1:08.0	Today I'm going to do kind of a what-if episode. life. of course the easy answer is just about anyone and some historians would agree. As you might have guessed I don't like the easy answers. What I will present today though is a review of seven former
1:15.5	Russian rulers in my assessment of how they would have done had they been Tsar starting on November 1st,
1:21.9	1894.
1:23.0	The rulers I will look at today are Nicholas the 1st,
1:27.0	Alexander the 1st, Catherine the Great,
1:30.0	Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Great, and Vladimir the Great.
1:35.0	A lot of Great's in there.
1:37.0	Let's start with Nicholas the first.
1:39.0	The reactionaries are who, in my opinion, began the downward spiral of the Romano rule. He was
1:45.9	confronted early on with a crisis, the December's revolt. Coming back from the
1:50.8	wars against Napoleon, seeing the vast difference in freedoms in Europe,
1:55.2	the officers of the revolt were members of secret societies,
1:58.7	discussing ways to end the autocracy of Russia,
2:01.6	and move towards a more democratic way of life.
2:05.2	On December 26th, 19 or 1825, excuse me, they attempted a coup against the czar believing
2:11.4	he was illegitimately taking control over his brother Constantine.
2:17.0	What they didn't know was that Constantine had renounced his claim and that Nicholas was indeed the legitimate
2:22.2	heir. Within hours after and then Nicholas was indeed the legitimate air.
2:23.0	Within hours after proclaiming himself Tsar,
2:26.0	Nicholas had to deal with the uprising.
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