The Real Problem in Russia - Nicholas and Andra

By the fall of 19 16, there were very few members of alite society who were not hypercritical of nicholas and alexandra. You'd be hard pressed to find anybody who thought the emperor and empress were like doing a bang up job. Forward looking industrialists and backward looking aristocrats all of high society was unifying against them. One of the things that unified opposition to the imperial couple across the ideological spectrum was the widespread belief that russia's difficulties during the war were the result of treason in high places.