I got to the part of the Revolutions podcast where the royal family died. He said the consensus is that Moscow ordered the death of the whole family. Is that pretty much agreed on by serious historians nowadays or is that Cold War historiagraphy?
It seemed kind of split when I looked in some Ask Historians thread on Reddit from years ago, but I also might just be seeing what I want to see. What do historians think? What do you think? If Lenin and company in Moscow ordered it, why?
I think the thing that people usually frown on is the death of the kids, at least on the left side. Personally, I don’t even blame them that much for that either because it was during a Civil War, at the beginning of a delicate time in the new government’s period of rule. It’s hard to tell what decisions will come back to you bite you or not in that kind of environment, plus fog of war and all that. Wish they did the trial like planned, or even better some sort of reformation like the last Chinese emperor, but oh well, that’s real life history for you. It’s messy sometimes.