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The consensus of what would occur if the UK didn't enter the Great War is that France and Russia would get pummelled. Lets say, however, that near-ASB levels of luck befall the French and Russian war effort and victory is secured in 1915. I'd imagine such a scenario would involve France not...

The Fools Who Dream An Account of mid-18th Century Europe at War. The Seven Years’ War, French and Indian War, Third Silesian War, etc., whatever you want to call it, was undoubtedly a pivotal moment in history. It’s no wonder that it is (relatively) so often the subject of alt-history works...

Is it possible for a unified Russian state to emerge out of a Mongol Khanate gone native? How would this change Russia’s interactions with the West and Central Asia, whether it converts to Orthodoxy or Islam?

the European map is the same as normal iron curtain times. Also yes china goes capitalist because neither the USA nor Russia would allow it to be communist (nor a bunch of other powers) make your own ideas for if it’s democratic Russia/china or dictatorship. The countrys hate each other because...

I was just thinking today... how plausible is Imperial Russia using the "Third Rome" (like the crazy Greek Plan from Catherine the Great) excuse and inviting/gathering christian minorities (asia minor greeks), syriac christians, armenians, assyrians and copts? Like a christian zion. Today there...

Obviously this would need some major PoDs, but is it doable while also making the Union head towards federalization? I think to make it more likely for Russia to join, a few conditions would need to be met first. 1) making democracy survive in Russia 2) keeping it just poor enough to make it...

After suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of Russia in the Battle of Potsdam (August 3rd 1761) Frederick II's Kingdom in Prussia was too exhausted to even attempt and continue the war effort. Great Britain begrudgingly acknowledged Prussia's surrender, choosing to continue the fight on...

After years of stagnation, the "new thinking" of younger Communist apparatchik began to emerge. Following the death of terminally ill Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in March...

For a simple POD, in 11th century the Novgorod boyars obeyed their prince and began to cooperate with the king instead of dismissing. What happen next?

If Alaska remains Russian well into the 20th century, how would its demographics be affected by the Gold Rush and oil boom? Would the American or Canadian influx of miners and prospectors overrun any Russian/Ukrainian/Central Asian etc. settlement? What about the indigenous population?

In the late 18th Century, there was a plan drawn up by Catherine the Great, negotiated with the Habsburg Monarchy. The plan was called the Greek Plan and was an idea for a partition of the Ottoman Empire, and create a Neo-Byzantine Empire with Catherine's grandson, Constatine on the throne...

So, in his final years, King Wladyslaw IV of Poland dreamed of a great war with the Crimea and Turks, there were some alliances and foreign funding organized, Cossacks have been roused (which had very unfortunate results very soon) and the like. But Sejm was not interested in war, particularly...

Here were the terms agreed to by Lenin and Bullitt that were rejected by Wilson and Lloyd George: (1) The retention by all *de facto* governments in Russia of control of territories they occupied (see the attached map, scanned from Thompson's book, for the approximate areas of control at the...

Honestly I don't know much about the 18th century but this is an important point for my story "Victoria Austracista" (where Archduke Charles (Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor) becomes king of Spain in 1710) so I wanted some opinions to know what could happen. Elizabeth of Russia ruled the country...

On November 25th 1917 Russia held what is generally considered to be it's first free election (though some districts held theirs around two months later) when 46m Russians cast their vote for the Russian Constituent Assembly. The results were as followed... 767 seats total. 384 needed for a...

As we all know in WW1 Russia fell to revolution and soon signed a peace treaty with Germany while France endured to the end, but how plausible is, for a timeline I might write, a reversed scenario in which France surrenders at any point of the war, and possibly falls to some kind of socialist...

The genesis of this idea comes from Blackstar's Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition on Sufficient Velocity. It's a quest where the readers guide the Soviet Union's State Planning Committee. It's quite long, at this point, and the Soviet Union is generally quite a bit more prosperous than...

Boris Yeltsin was a major political figure in Russia in the late 80s and early 90s, eventually being the main force for the end of the USSR and Russia becoming a Democracy. However, then under his Presidency, Russia became a corrupt and backwards nation that very quickly went to support Vladimir...

Would Became Constitutional Monarchy? Would Became Westernization? Would Russian Empire Won Crimean War and Created Israel? Would Alexander II Never Assassination 1881? Would Russian Empire Won Russo-Japanese Won? Would Russia Won WW1? Would USSR and Cold War Never Happened? Would Operation...

What would be the consequence IF everything that can go wrong GOES wrong for the Germans and their allies in Operation Barbarossa and after? What if they CANNOT even reach cities like Vilnius, Minsk or Khmelnytskyi ?