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They should really be concerned with their security or risk having the Tsarist police ship them off to Siberia.

As to WWI, you're surly not telling me that Tsarist Russia was democratic, are you?

The last time the world had an intelligentsia of this magnitude, the Tsarist State fell.

Bear in mind that even before communism, much of it had been part of Tsarist Russia in the 19th century or earlier.

If you're living in Tsarist Russia, writing might be the only interesting pastime.

Look at the final months of Nazi Germany or Tsarist Russia.

And this while engaged in a war with tsarist Russia.

Indeed, it was significantly worse than even Tsarist economic management.

No, but maybe the way of tsarist Russia or Rwanda?

Remember also how Tsarist Russia was the first power to collapse and get knocked out of the war in WW1, long before the war was over.

Especially if you consider Tsarist rule that Mongol invasions arguably paved the way for to be amongst the factors responsible for the relative backwardness of the Russian Empire.

Romania entrusted Tsarist Russia with its national treasure.

Democratic Peace theorists always run into the issue of "what is a democracy." Consider WW1, in which most of the major belligerants, except for Tsarist Russia, have a plausible case for being called democratic.

This article describes a marvelous example of survivorship bias (or in this case "winners write history") coupled with classic Christensen disruption: "The legal institutions of Tsarist Russia were mortally wounded by the collapse of Tsarism; in contrast, the illegal underground survived intact, possessed of a nationwide scope and plausible claims to mass support and legitimacy.

Fact is, I also believe that the Tsarist secret police Okhrana was much better at actually fighting the "terrorists" using classic methods like "infiltrating and influencing revolutionary groups, rather than merely identifying and arresting their members", compared to what the US secret agencies are doing right now.

Tsarist Russia was probably about as democratic as the modern U.