How Was The Murder Of The Imperial Family Justified

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The Russian Revolution is a turning point in Russia’s History. During the Revolution, the Russian’s free themselves of the autocratic rule of Tsar Nicholas II and established a Communist government. Although the Communist government wasn’t ideal, it was a step forward from the feudal rule of the Tsarist Family. However the question, “To what extend was the Murder of the Imperial Family justified?”, takes a different angel towards the subject; in which the I will discuss who far a murder can be justified. This is worth investigating as, the soviet government denied any association to the murder and even arrested 28 man; from which 5 of these men were executed for the shooting of the royal family and their entourage. However the telegram ordering the murder of the imperial family was delivered by Lenin's bodyguard2

There were three revolutions in Russia; one was in 1905 and the other two were in 1917. The revolution in 1905 had …show more content…

Most of these unrests where about the government, whilst others just wanted a change in their daily life. The first revolution included peasant unrest, attacks on generals, worker strikes and the ‘Bloody Sunday’. This was “...the massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905.”3 This revolution resulted in the formation of a limited constitutional monarchy, the Duma, a multi-party system and the Russian Constitution of 1906. The February/March revolution in 1917 was caused the russian citizens wanting more say in the government and after the Tsar had closed down the Duma and went against the October Manifest the people rioted. The Duma also wanted to have a bigger part in governing Russia but after being

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