Russian Revolution

Was there anything that the Czarist government could have done to prevent this revolution? What was their biggest mistake? 

[q]Was there anything that the Czarist government could have done to prevent this revolution? What was their biggest mistake?[/q]
No, unless Nicholas' branch of the family died and his competent uncle took the throne. Their biggest mistake was entering the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 in order to expand to China and Korea. Should've stabilized home more before going abroad.

[q]I think their biggest misake was joining the war but I think in 1914 they had no real choice. Russia had missed out in industrialization and with modernity comes democratization and that was what infiriated the Russian people the most in 1917. Nicholas II should have instituted the gains from 1905, it may have spared him his life.[/q]
What infuriated the people was the fact that the Army which was taking everything they couldg et was still badly undersupplied and continuously retreated.

What is the single greatest cause of the Russian revolution? Is it the disaster of World War One, the decline of absolute monarchies, was it the Romanov's inability to deal with Russia's pressing concerns, or another that you may have?

 Was Russia better off under theBolsheviks than it would ahv ebeen under Kerenski? I mean we were a superpower for quite a while and still remain a militarily powerful nation(although the economy leaves a lot to be desired). We also almos sindglehandedly defeated Germany in WW2.

 Had Russia lost WW2 right away, Japan and Germany would rip it apart for recources and then taek Britain with their combined force. At that point USA would ahve been no match for them, so most of us(people of non Teutonic white origins) wouldn't be here today without Stalin.

Between Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin who was the most capable leader.

Originally posted by Dark One Had Russia lost WW2 right away, Japan and Germany would rip it apart for recources and then taek Britain with their combined force. At that point USA would ahve been no match for them, so most of us(people of non Teutonic white origins) wouldn't be here today without Stalin.

Japan's inability to defeat the United States was its gravest mistake.  What makes you think that a dual coalition of Japan and Germany could defeat the United States and the United Kingdom, the two greatest naval powers of the age - especially since the German Kriegsmarine couldn't get out of port or suffer total devastation by the hands of the Royal Navy.  The only asset Germany had for it was the U-boat, and even those were totally ineffective.  By 1942 the United States was producing more submarine hunters than Germany u-boats - it was just a war lost for Germany from the start.  The Japanese would have little success also - as soon as they were defeated at Midway, then Coral Sea, the war for them was just a long defense of the islands they had previously conquered - and by the end of 1941 their military was so overstretched it would be logistically impossible for them to form a strong army - strong enough to take on the United States that is.

Also, the notion of the Soviet Union falling that fast is negated by the fact that had Moscow fallen as soon as November of 1941 the Wehrmacht had not the strength to continue fighting in the Urals and Caucasus, and it's energy would be quickly sapped by continous Soviet partisan warfare, and continued jabs from the Urals - which, in fact, was where all the "resources" and industry was - not Western Russia.

Face it, Hitler's cause was lost in 1933 - when he became Chancellor of Germany.

Between Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin who was the most capable leader.

All three should have been shot by the Cheka - I would rather have seen Trotsky as the head of the Kremlin. He was much more adept at a more liberal, constitutional, Communist regime in the Soviet Union.

I know - I just said, that had the Soviet Union fallen Germany's fate still lay down the drain.

No, because the Soviet Union already had an anti-war policy (until 1943 at least, theoritically).  The reason the Soviet Union and Germany went to war was because Hitler knew he couldn't touch Great Britain, so instead, he decided to launch a overland invasion of the Soviet Union.

Originally posted by dark_one  That policy was a farce maent to make the other side feel more secure. It wasn't a matter of whether there owuld be a war, but when it would be.

STAVKA's re-building of the Red Army, which commenced in mid-1940 were to be finished by 1942 - so, Stalin had no plans to enter a war with Germany until 1943 - and even then it was doubted that he would attack Germany.  Most likely, assuming that Japan hit at Pearl Harbor, he would have blasted through the Manchuria in order to take that for himself.