decision making

• Alexander II- used Zmestva, Mir, everyone answerable to Tsar, gave more freedoms with emancipation and less censorship however after attempts on assassination brought censorship in
• Alexander III- political representation for lower classes reduced, lack of intervention in 1891 famine, discontent to Tsars, economic decline, investment into railways inefficient
• Nicholas II- abolished Zmestva, relied on Stolypin and others, failures in Russo-Japanese war, dismantled Duma several times
• PG- all large decisions passed to CA which not yet happened, PS made decisions, could not control people or answer needs e.g., land, working conditions, war
• Lenin- one ruler, dictatorship, wanted communism
• most made decisions due to pressure from people
• all had different goals