"America props up the Belgian Congo with as many soldiers as necessary" just seems like you're reading Stalin's christmass list, really. :p
And Japan-almost certainly. I expect you'd see a much faster rehabilitation of former imperial officials and officers, probably no Article 9. Depending on...
The Soviet experience would seem to indicate otherwise-a sense of being besieged and losing ground tends to make paranoia and desperation worse among decision-makers, not better.
That said, I should point out that there actually a good deal of variety in the particular flavor of brutal...
This is just OTL
Thoughts-there might-might- be enough of a population base among the pied noirs to support a French government-in-exile for a time, but it will become a quagmire for the Americans very quickly, and the FLN will be getting all the Soviet support they could dream of.
An...
This is an amazing timeline (and reminding me of all the readings I, ah, skimmed during Russian history). Subscribed, and very much looking forward to everything spiraling out of control.
I mean, 'equal to OTL 1990s Russia' is a low enough bar that it can be met fairly easily, yeah. Just slot the Balts in as the Chenya analogue and everything's fine (and they'll probably get treated a fair bit lighter, given the whole 'right next to NATO' thing.)
But a different fallout of...
Typo on my part, yeah, apologies.
(Well, except in the case of the UK, what with India and all. Actually, come to think of it, were there more citizens people in the Metropole then natives in Indochina and French Africa?)
The nazis were quite good at propaganda. If they won, I'm certain a few generations down the line people would be conveniently forgetting all the genocides as they taught Patriotic German History.
Eh, a Pole might disagree. A Herero certainly would. (but then, literally every European great...
Serfdom per se was mostly gone by then I believe.
The Time of Troubles? The Peasant's War?
Of course, a part of the problem is that peasant revolts were usually either small scale (satisfied with burning the local manor houses and tax/census/property records), or ended up conscripting local...
I'd actually argue the opposite is easier. Have to change the history of organized labor, the civil rights/black liberation, and the activist left some grant, but you could end up with the GOP being the party of Rockefeller and Lindsay while the Dems stand for the solid south and herenvolk...
Muhammad Ali's Egypt really feels like it should have been a contender-even if it's position and the sudden feasibility of a Suez canal probably meant some sort of European domination was inevitable, cannier/more competent rulers might have managed to hold the state together and create a...
A successful Reconstruction as envisioned by Stevens and Summer seems like a good start, certainly-the destruction of the Southern Democrats' social base was basically a core part of their plans, and between the freemen and carpetbagger/scalwag populations there are enough votes to secure most...
Personally, I've always held the opinion that the Persians are really due their turn to be uncritically adulated as the inventors of all the good bits of civilization.
I think 1 might be on to something, though it might have too late at that point-1938 was deeply, deeply traumatic on a cultural level even beyond the obvious loss of competent soldiers and officials, and avoiding it would certainly have helped on a lot of levels (It might have helped prevented...
The Ottoman's actually made a fairly credible go of it, better luck or different Sultans or staying out of WW1 and they're quite likely to have succeeded.
The Pahlavi Shahs in Iran basically did succeed, just past the time period most people are looking at. So Iran's obviously capable ot it...
Not a timeline. It was a plan popular among a clique of scholars around Franz Ferdinand for federalizing the empire.
As for parties, at the very least I'd think there would be a nationalist/separatist party for each nationality. Whether of the violent ultranationalist variety, the regionalist...