weak: disagreeable to a person in his presence e.g. when dismissing a minister send him a letter.
character- response to disconent
After 1905 pogroms, excused perpetrators by stating, 'nine tenths of the trouble makers are Jews,' suggesting people's anger turned against them.
Subscribed to the anti-Semitic Union of the Russian People.
Jews were the greatest victims of the policy of Russification.
whole system was run by a corrupt civil service whose job was to raise taxation and carry out the Tsar's directives- character
incapable of accommodating change, including rapid industrialization, urbanization, demands of national minorities, and middle-class demands for constitutionalist developments. SO
Local police, supervised by provincial governors, enforced subservience.
Okhrana, overseen by the Ministry of Interior in St. Petersburg, quelled dissent.
Cossacks acted as enforcers in rural areas.
ill-suited character
'I know nothing of the business of ruling. I have no idea of even how to talk to the ministers.’Nicholas’ reaction becomig Tsar
