Autocracy, Bolsheviks, and Constitutions. Evaluate the attitude of the Russian autocracy and the Bolsheviks to the constitutions and law. What were the different conditions in which the tsarist regime and the Bolsheviks produced their constitutions? How willingly did they write constitutions, and what aspects of policy and administration were exempt from constitutional regulation? To what extent did these regimes seem to respect these constitutions in practice, and what efforts did they make to limit the constraints of constitutional provisions on their actions?