The Russian Federation Constitution demands does not allow Putin to run again. He is allowed to be Prime Minister as there is no rule in the Constitution which prevents this. So really he is "President" --just Behind the Scenes. Mir out!
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He was forced to by the Bolsheviks. The Working Class and the Bolsheviks felt that he wasn't a good emperor. He led Russia to have economic and military collapse from the first world war. And he just made it worse by killing more people in Bloody Sunday (search it up). People started to really dislike him and liked the Bolsheviks more (led by Lenin) who thought communism would be best with the Working Class getting their say. After he stepped down, the Bolsheviks took charge and you can learn more by searching up the Bolshevik revolution or the Russian Rev. He was later murdered along with the rest of his family.
The Bolsheviks came to power, by shutting down an election by force when the socialist revolutionaries won the election. The leader of the Bolsheviks, were just as bad as Tsar Nicholas II.
An autocratic tsar, is a tsar who rules with supreme power. This means that he would have the final say in everything that happened in the country, and he does not have to do what anyone else wants him to.
The Duma was an elected legislative body that Tsar Nicholas II allowed to be created after the Bloody Sunday incident in 1905. It was supposed to be able to write legislation that even the Tsar would have to honor, but Nicholas kept ignoring it and it became nothing more than an advisory body.
Tsar's Path was created in 1861.
Ivan IV was the terrible tsar. He was called Ivan the Terrible.