Answer: Its economic base was agriculture.
It lacked a modern transportation system,
It was led by an autocratic monarchy.
Explanation:
All these elements are the reason for the lag in Russia's modernization and industrialization in the early twentieth century. Russia's economy was limited to agriculture, so there was no progress in industrialization. Modern transport system and infrastructure are the foundations on which the Industrial Revolution rests, Russia did not have built infrastructure. And while for the most part, the democratization of society began, in Russia, the monarchy was the basic form of government.
