Sir Antony Beevor

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TRIGGERnometry · The Russian Mindset and Where it Comes From - Historian Sir Antony Beevor · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

So it was a vast humiliation to Russia, especially to Nicholas II himself.

and it forced him into accepting basically a constitution in October.

uh 2005. at a time 1905. sorry yeah i know one easily skips the century yeah and um this of course uh was because the war had created such anger that being the uh march uh of father gapon

The protest in St.

Petersburg in that January of 2005, where they were gunned down by the Imperial Guard and the Cossacks sent in and all the rest of it.

And terrible repression in the countryside when houses, manor houses were set on fire.

It was very much a prelude to the later revolution, the 1905 disturbances.

And you also then get, of course, the battleship Potemkin and the mutiny in the Black Sea.

So there Nicholas was in a very...

defensive position, he burst into tears after signing the document and felt that he betrayed the whole family because he had signed away.

Basically, he felt Romanov autocracy.

And then, of course, the struggle between him and, worst of all, from his point of view,

The liberal conservatives in the Duma, who would be the only ones who could actually have saved or helped save the monarchy from itself.

But because of his obstinacy, because of his lack of imagination, and his insistence on trying to restore the Romanov autocracy, he actually became his own worst enemy.

Yes, but there are two versions of that.

There are also those who will argue that the collapse of regime is accelerated when they start making compromises.

So, you know, it can work both ways.

In his particular case, of course, it wasn't just the repression.

Stolypin, the prime minister, had been...

known to repress as strongly as he could.

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