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yes, but russia was particularly backward, Nicholas II was not a reformer, and he himself was destined to either be deposed or assasinated. If he were assasinated and a more competant tsar - Michael or Grand Duke Nicholas, then the Romanov's may have been able to hang on, but they would need to undertake some serious reforms, which i consider unlikely.