By 1914, it looked as if the monarchy had successfully survived the revolution and adjusted itself to the new political and economic realities. The transition to constitutional monarchy had been made, a parliament established, and a way discovered to fill it with deputies generally loyal to the regime. The non-Russian nationalities were taken under control after receiving some cultural concessions, and Russian nationalism had created an unprecedented bond between the monarchy and most of its subjects. Fears that allowing the Ukrainians and Belarusians to publish in their languages would split
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The chapter TLDR is that at the turn of the 20th century the working class and generally non-Russians revolted causing a lot of political turmoil ultimately, Russia became a constitutional monarchy. Despite becoming a constitutional monarchy the monarchy found a way to infuse parliament with allies. You have a starker political system now, with a Russian nationalist party wildly lobbying a working class and peasantry electorate and evoking strong nationalistic emotions which were also anti-pole and anti-Jew. You had a constitutional democratic party that wanted to become more similar to Europe and also semi sympathized with the Ukrainian autonomy movement to obtain the Ukrainian electorate, however, didn’t really get the Ukrainophiles what they wanted.
“The transition to constitutional monarchy had been made, a parliament established, and a way discovered to fill it with deputies generally loyal to the regime. The non-Russian nationalities were taken under control after receiving some cultural concessions, and Russian nationalism had created an unprecedented bond between the monarchy and most of its subjects.”
