Germany was not really a democracy in 1917. It was nominally a constitutional monarchy under the Kaiser, with a very limited parliamentary system elected by male sufferage that could pass budgets but little else. By the end of the war - before the Kaiser abdicated - it was pretty much a defacto military dictatorship run by the General Staff.
Yes my mistake, corrected.
An elected parliament that controls the budget is actually a very core part of democracy. Power flows from budgets.
Well, yesterday you’ve controlled the budged, and today you were killed by our special police.
How is that ironic?
It was a deliberate strategy to destabilize Russia and undermine their war effort. It worked.
I guess the irony is that, in the long run, it turned Russia into an even stronger competitor.
It's hard to say how Russia would look like without the Revolution. It could be democratic.
I don't know why everybody assumes the Russian populace doesn't like Putin.
Seeing how and where Kerenskij directed Russia after the february coup, we can safely say that Russia would be non-existent. Just like Ottoman or Habsburg empires, that disappeared at the same time.
But Russia would be on the winning side. But that's just some alternative history.