Britain might use its financial and material support to press Nicholas II toward a constitutional monarchy. Aid could be conditioned on giving the Duma and other political groups a stake in government. The suggested model is Britain's later use of political conditions when supporting other countries, applied here as a counterfactual form of wartime leverage. Nicholas might still reject reform, and reform might still fail to prevent a later revolution.
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British aid as leverage for Russian constitutional reform
British money and supplies could be tied to political participation and pressure for a constitutional Russian monarchy.