Question

Which of the following best illustrates why reform was much more difficult in Russia than in the United States and Great Britain?
a. Russian Czars refused to support reforms.
b. The Russian political system was much more connected to the people.
c. Russia was autocratic while the U.S. and Great Brittan were democratic.
d. The political systems in the U.S. and Great Britain were not as connected to the people as that in Russia.

Answer 1

The answer that best illustrates why reform was much more difficult in Russia than in the United States and Great Britain would be that "c. Russia was autocratic while the U.S. and Great Britain were democratic," since both under the Czars and the Soviets this was a despotic state.