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Chapter 71 - More Painful Than a Gunshot Wound (3)

Tsarism.

All national wealth and power controlled and distributed by the Tsar.

That is, imperial subjects bear no responsibility while one person, the 'Tsar', takes responsibility for the state and rules for life.

Especially in Russia where Tsar's power had strengthened over the past 100 years, only during times of Tsar succession was there room for other ideologies to enter.

A representative example would be liberalism that flourished nationwide with Nicholas II's ascension.

However, rarely during the current Tsar's reign, one more gap appeared in this Tsarism - the State Duma.

The power-concentrated bureaucracy of a centralized state and the Duma recognizing local power.

When young Stolypin first observed this dual structure, what he felt was 'Can these coexist?'

Though the Duma is an element making imperial politics healthy long-term, it's still a premature organization.

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