What if the Romanov Family of Russia was massacred in the age of mass media and the internet? (war, Great Britain)
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We all heard about, at one way or the other how the Russian Monarchy was brutally crushed after the Romanov Family Members were massacred in 1918. People continue to debate about it and try to understand how it has affected world history today.
My question is, how big of an event would it have been if there was mass media and the internet around to report on it? Anyone know? If you can provide benchmarks comparing it to other big events, it would be helpful. Thanks.
We all heard about, at one way or the other how the Russian Monarchy was brutally crushed after the Romanov Family Members were massacred in 1918. People continue to debate about it and try to understand how it has affected world history today.
My question is, how big of an event would it have been if there was mass media and the internet around to report on it? Anyone know? If you can provide benchmarks comparing it to other big events, it would be helpful. Thanks.
Ermm..
For starters, Nickolas II has abdicated from his throne in 1917. So officially after March 15? of 1917 Russia was not even a monarchy any longer.
Well, it would have been front page news for a couple days until Snooki got drunk again on the beach, nuclear reactors started leaking, the Prince of Wales decided to get married, people in Syria started to be slaughtered and the President of the United States proved he was a citizen. So, yeah it would be big, but with a 24/7 news cycle it would have just been old news.
Probably the biggest recent comparison would be the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein. That dominated the news for what, two days at most? As to the impact of the exectuions on world history, not much really. The revolution had already succeeded, the Tsar was deposed with no hope of regaining power. The actual killings were just tying up loose ends.
Given the "real time" exposure to violence and war via the media and technology today I think it may have been a smaller event than it was at the time. By that I mean I think people today would be less outraged by such an event. We are conditioned now but back then it was more rare. Sad really.
So to answer OP's question in short:
The change of regime in Russia ( Bolshevism) happened not because of the "massacre of Tzar's family," but for a number of different internal ( and external) reasons. In spite of the "absence of the internet" in those days, the other major powers of the world were very much aware of the events taking place in Russia. Did they try to intervene? Of course they did. The *Allies* ( namely Great Britain and France) took part in Russian Civil War, ( 1917-1923) that killed approximately 3 million people.
This intervention didn't change the course of history however; what was inevitable, took place anyway.
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