Discuss this idea in relation to the forced abdication of Tsar Nicholas II?

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I am asked to write an essay on this for school and I am stuck, any ideas/help?

“When historians look back on the events of Febuary/March 1917, it is easy to think that they were in some way inevitable. In fact what happened in those days took everyone by surprise, especially Tsar Nicholas himself.”

Discuss this idea in relation to the forced abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
I am not sure what exactly the question is asking me to write. How would I start this question and what should the essay contain?

“When historians look back on the events of Febuary/March 1917, it is easy to think that they were in some way inevitable. In fact what happened in those days took everyone by surprise, especially Tsar Nicholas himself.”

Discuss this idea in relation to the forced abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
 
Nicholas II (18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and claimant to the title of King of Poland.His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is currently regarded as Saint Nicholas the Passion Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to an economic and military disaster. Critics nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because of the Khodynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, and his largely fatal anti-Semitic pogroms. As head of state, he approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914 which marked the first fatal step into World War I and thus into the demise of the Romanov dynasty.

Nicholas II was the last Tsar to reign over the Russia. The Alexander Palace was the site of his birth, where his mother delivered him in her plush Blue Bedroom on the sixth of May in 1868. Ominously, this chanced to be the Orthodox feast day of St. Job the Sufferer, which seemed to foretell the endless trials that would plague Nicholas' tragic life. Little "Nicky", as he was called, was the product of a stunning, petite brunette, Maria Fyodorovna Romanova - formerly Dagmar, Princess of Denmark - and a giant, intimidating father, Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov.
 
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