In an effort to stop the revolution of the autocracy was forced to suppress their natural allies. Having stripped-down, emasculated constitution, it has become hostage to autocracy, and has lost its power, not gaining anything in return. From now on, it only worsened the situation, but was unable to improve it.
“It is not in a position to attempt to resolve whatever the big social problem, not dealing with a death-blow” – wrote Weber. However, in general the task of overcoming the crisis management of modernization in the caste society could not solve, the Russian Empire fell, according to Weber, the “historical trap” – a system of interacting vicious circles.
Whatever made the tsarist government, discontent was growing. The presence of these vicious circles, Weber explains, in particular, the hostile attitude of the autocracy towards the Zemstvo self-government as an institution, and therefore a significant part of the nobility and the intelligentsia.
