I think that both things - that is RF TL and your idea could be merged, that is in the 1990s we will focus more on putting Russia back on its feet, then starting in the 2000s we could pursue expansion into UFS or something similar
A New Beginning - Our 1992 Russian Federation
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I expanded my write in, but to sum it up we could have option to form some sort of lose union with other Soviet States with Russian federation being member.
As said before Yavlinsky successfully negotiated economic union. Down the line we can expand our cooperation into military sphere as well, making it something similar to EU where member states cooperate on quite few of things but maintain their sovereignty.
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ok, we will see but some form of intranational union is a very good idea, and I was thinking about definitely implementing it, but rather later than just after the fall of the USSR
That's true, but honestly achieving some level of economic cooperation right away makes sense for Russia as of now and for all other member states. Maybe some lose union focused on economy right away with further cooperation and integration being on table.
I agree with @dunHozzie that Yavlinsky appears to be the more charismatic of the duo, and so my vote is G-Yavlinsky as President, and F-Fyodorov as Prime Minister.
As to the UFS idea I don’t agree. The USSR is collapsing and we would have to be insanely lucky to convince any of the states that formed in the aftermath to lose their independence immediately. Our best chances is to get what in OTL became contested territory (Crimea, Abkhazia, Donbas etc.).
As to the UFS idea I don’t agree. The USSR is collapsing and we would have to be insanely lucky to convince any of the states that formed in the aftermath to lose their independence immediately. Our best chances is to get what in OTL became contested territory (Crimea, Abkhazia, Donbas etc.).
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I would agree with @Kriss , with Fyodorov as the President and Yavlinsky as the Prime Minister, but would these two agree to cooperate like that? Would Yavlinsky want to serve under Fyodorov?
But at first a lot of regions voted to stay. Only after the original 3 went off on their own the rest bailed out too.
Good point, we can do without all those. Keep Belarus, Ukraine, the stans and Russia. You can do a German or US like model. You still have to transition to a democracy, still have to decide the state powers, combat nationalism etc.
Subbed. This timeline reminds me of New Union on the Alternate History Wiki.
Glad to see another Russia timeline. Seeing the beginning is more optimistic, this appears to be the complete opposite of The Death of Russia.
Glad to see another Russia timeline. Seeing the beginning is more optimistic, this appears to be the complete opposite of The Death of Russia.
Thanks, balance is good as they say, but Death of Russia is a great TL, though hopefully something like that won't happen in this TL
Great stuff, I didn't know about the New Union Treaty. It works though the new shorthand of USS (Union of Sovereign States) is a tad to close to US(A) to me. Maybe Sovereign States Union (Soyuz Suverennykh Gosudarstv / CCG / Союз Суверенных Государств) works.
I'm hoping here that Russia is at least a functional constitutional republic and not the mafia oligarchy state that it is of OTL. The 1990s was one of Russia's shot of becoming a flawed yet functioning democracy.Thanks, balance is good as they say, but Death of Russia is a great TL, though hopefully something like that won't happen in this TL
The New Union Treaty would have prevented the USSR from disintegrating. It would have been renamed as the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. The "Socialist" would be dropped. In this TL of New Union, the reformed USSR still uses the iconic Hammer & Sickle flag for symbolic purposes, but its government is similar to OTL Eastern European constitutional republics.
NATO doesn't expand eastward as well, on the request of the reformed USSR not to include former Warsaw Pact members.
Presidential candidates
Quick summary of each candidate :
Bakatin is the last leader of the KGB and runs here as a moderate communist who wants to keep the USSR alive and engage a smooth transition towards a market economy as well as a struggle against corruption while also being highly critical of Gorbachev's foreign policy;
Yeltsin is self-explanatory;
Zhirinovsky is commonly called a showman due to his extravagant ultranationalistic rhetorics (IRL he wanted to retake Alaska from the Americans and to send all nuclear waste to the Baltics) but his 1991 campaign isn't as mad yet (more of the average far right populist type, such as the defence of ethnic Russian interests, the end of economic help to other socialist countries, the proclamation of Russia as an undividable land and a ban on foreign investments);
Makashov is another picturesque character, a self-described "nationalist communist" mainly supported by neo-Stalinists whose program is a mix of nostalgia for the pre-Khrushchev years, intense militarism, pro-workers rhetorics and Doctors' Plot-era antisemitic paranoia;
Tuleyev is the only candidate to be from an ethnic minority (he has a Kazakh father and a Tatar mother) and styles himself here as a left-wing populist who promises to give more autonomy to ethnic minorities, expand mining, enact some much-needed incremental economic reforms and create a genuine welfare state;
Fyodorov isn't a politician first but a famed surgeon, a background that reflects in its projects as he wants to fully use Russia's intellectual potential in order to compete with the USA and Japan while also planning to remodel the economy on the Chinese model, de-nationalize a lot of companies and placing others in the hands of workers' cooperatives;
Yavlinsky, finally, is an economic reformist who aims to turn the current planned system into a free market one, create an economic union between all former SSRs, enact progressivist social policies and overall keep cordial relationships with the West.
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