Actually, I think Nicholas II was a good tsar and Russia under him was cruising to victory, and the command of the Bosphorus straits that Russia would have gotten. By 1916 the war became war of attrition and Russia was uniquely equipped to win it. And previously it was inder Nicholas II that Stolypin was able to institute the much needed reforms. The Tsar was betrayed by the cowards who surrounded him, and by the leftwing hysteria in the Duma and the press.
You have a point there (few could have stopped the Bolzheviks from starting something), BUT I think monarchies should reign, just not subsidized by the state and people.