How effective was the Tsar at ruling Russia?

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How effective was the Tsar at ruling Russia?
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NGfL Russia 1900-1924
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1900

• The Tsar had absolute and divine rule
• Autocracy
• Censorship
• Secret Police

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1905

• Sailors Mutinied
• The Russo-Japanese War
• Economic Depression
• Bloody Sunday
• The 1905 Attempted Revolution

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1910

• October Manifesto
• The Duma
• Stolypins Land Reforms
• Restoration of Law and Order
• Industrial Boom

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1914

• Outbreak of War
• Continued Industrial Boom
• Increased Nationalism
• At Tannenberg and the First Battle of the
  Masurian Lakes (1914), Russia lost two entire
  armies (over 250,000 men)

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1916

• The Tsar took command of the army at the front
• The Tsarina was left in charge of Russia. She
  turned to Rasputin for advice
• There were mutinies at the Front
• In the large cities there were shortages of food

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1917

• Abdication of the Tsar
• Provisional Government was set up
• The Tsar and his family were under house arrest
  in Ekaterinburg
• The Tsar and his family were executed