A People's Tragedy by Orlando Fyges

Alexandra would elevate a minister, then suddenly replace them a few months or even a few weeks later. This amount of turnover would cause major problems in the best of times. The problem with these personnel decisions was not just alexandra removing competent ministers and putting incompetent sycophants in charge - it was also how often she was changing her mind. It led to systematic bureaucratic disfunction. Even here, heading into the spring of 19 16, it's not like russia had to lose the war to send into revolutionary chaos. That's a straight up existential threat to the empire.