![]() ![]() None had recognised how industrialisation and urbanisation had changed the attitudes of the workers, many of whom had swapped agricultural life for the cities and, now, demanded greater rights. ![]() Miranda Carter’s The Three Emperors shows that these three nations lacked diplomatic ability and judgement. ![]() Although the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand’s assassination freed him of the burden of an heir he did not like, he proved too old to deal with 20 th century war knowing that his empire could not survive it. His ethnically diverse empire was unmanageably large, court protocol stultifying. ![]() Together the pair alienated subjects by hiding away at Tsarskoe Selot and their reliance on Rasputin further alienated them from both the court and population.įranz-Joseph of Austria’s problems were different. Married to a woman he loved, all Nicholas wanted to do was play ‘happy families’ Alexandra was crushingly shy and uncomfortable with court life. He complained that he was unready to rule and was unfit to be an emperor. Miranda Carter describes Wilhelm’s lack of lack of tact and diplomacy, that Nicholas II was weak, horrified when his hearty father Alexander III died unexpectedly (of Bright’s Disease) at the age of 49. Illustrated plus notes, bibliography and index. ![]()
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