... speaking out. It can look as if the Tsar was more a dictator than a monarch. The other consequences of the Tsars hold on Russia were the failing and ineffective administration that eventually led to the Tsarist systems downfall. A centrally appointed bureaucracy ruled Russia itself. The size of Russia made a unitary system completely ineffective, for example on the Western borders were Polish Jews yet in the Far East were peoples of Oriental origin at Vladivostok. No centralised government could understand the needs of all these peoples at the same time. The actual size of the country itself also made administration difficult as messages took a long time to pass from border to border. Unlike our system in which the different powers of government are separated, for example the judiciary, legislature and executive, in Tsarist Russia independence was impossible as all power rested with the Tsar. The legal system was ...

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