Tsar- indecisive, weak, unwilling to abandon autocracy, Not prepared to make concessions to representative government
Political system- still largely an autocracy: repressive, often corrupt, outdated
Middle classes- Growing professional middle class, who wanted a greater role in national government
Urban workers- alienated and disaffected. Strikes increasing
Peasants- still mainly poor, and hungry for more land. Class of hostile landless labourers developing
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