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- There is no consensus among the Western historians on the number of deaths from the Red Terror. One source gives estimates of 28,000 executions per year from December 1917 to February 1922.
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The Russian Imperial Romanov family ( Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
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Oct 26, 2021 · Riots broke out, people were killed. Shops were looted. THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION of 1917. 892. Military Mutiny. On 26 February (Russian calendar) the striking workers began to move to the city centre. St. Petersburg is built on a network of islands criss-crossed with canals. As soldiers closed the bridges, the workers walked across the ice.
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Oct 25, 2018 · European History. Why Czar Nicholas II and the Romanovs Were Murdered. The imperial family fell out of favor with the Russian public long before their execution by Bolsheviks in July 1918. By:...
More recently historian Sergei Volkov, assessing the Red Terror as the entire repressive policy of the Bolsheviks during the years of the Civil War (1917–1922), estimates the direct death toll of the Red Terror at 2 million people.
Nov 6, 2017 · Opinion. The legacy of 100 years of communism: 65 million deaths. By The Editorial Board | Chicago Tribune. PUBLISHED: November 6, 2017 at 5:15 p.m. | UPDATED: May 31, 2019 at 9:26 p.m. One...
