Your point about Nicholas' autocracy is well taken. He wasn't actually executed for his crimes, however. He was assassinated because he was politically inconvenient to the Bolsheviks.
"Your point about Nicholas' autocracy is well taken. He wasn't actually executed for his crimes, however. He was assassinated because he was politically inconvenient to the Bolsheviks."
I would agree with yout there - young revolutions are often hard pressed to hold fair trials of deposed dictators who might be rallying points. I doubt Iraq qould be trying Saddam so carefully if the U.S. were not still there in force.