1917

"so close and yet so far" describes german chances in ww1 perfectly imo. the two front war would ultimately be thier doom, but not before they struck russia a blow from which they only recovered because of Germany's failures in the west. OTL, Germany was advancing far into Russia, and the...

What would have been the outcome for Spain if the crisis of 1917 had been worse? For those who do not know, in 1917, despite the economic benefits that neutrality brought to Spain, the social and political situation was too tense, with a significant deterioration in the quality of life in urban...

Hello all, So, the US entering the First World War in 1917 on the side of Britain and France is often considered the deciding factor in Central Powers' defeat. However, after the US had entered the war, Russia would surrender and collapse into civil war. In the West, Germany would launch a...

La révolution d'avril April 25th, 1917 The Nivelle Offensive which started 9 days prior but to no avail so far. Three years into WW1 and the war seemed still far from done, "Home by Christmas" is a joke but makes no one laugh. This reality falls hardest on no one more than the French Army...

Sooo... What do you think? I'm honestly kinda puzzled how could such conclusion be reached...

More or less what it says on the tin, I'm curious about the plausibility of, in the aftermath of the Kerensky offensive and the July Days, a Kadet-backed coup (a la Kornilov affair, perhaps with Kornilov) during the tail end of July 1917. At the time of the July Days another revolt was happening...

After the February Revolution, the Tsar abdicated and Russia became a provisional republic led by Alexander Kerensky. Despite the deep unpopularity of the war effort the Foreign Secretary Pavel Milyukov affirmed the new government’s commitment to continuing to support the Entente and an...

In my last post I asked what the effects might be of US neutrality on the immediate events of 1917. It seems that one major change would be no Kerensky Offensive, since US loans were a major part of convincing the Russians to try it. Had the offensive not taken place (and failed), Russia...

In early 1917, the February Revolution led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. However, I've recently been wondering if there is any way that this revolution could have became an early civil war in Russia on the scale of OTL's Russian Civil War.

I had this idea since high school. Back when I was going through a Russian Empire phase.

What if, after the February Revolution, Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet agreed to sue for peace in March 1917? Germany wouldn't have to send Lenin in April 1917, would they? Would Russia thrives or would a Soviet Coup still happens?

Hello everyone, this is my first timeline in the After 1900 section, and I'm still somewhat insecure about it all. I have a lot of ideas for this timeline, but this is part of history where, even though I have spent the last months reading up, others are way more knowledgeable than me, and...

So just another WW1 topic. If WW1 ends in 1917 because the german spring offensive works and the German Empire prposed acceptable terms fora peace treaty (i know both a close to ASB). There is a return to the 1914 western european borders, Belgium stays independed and the are no reparation...

Lavr Kornilov was a Russian general during WWI. After the February Revolution, he wanted to establish a temporary military dictatorship in Russia because of it's political unstableness under Kerensky's rule and a fear of Bolshevik's rise to power which he was right. His attempt at overthrowing...

As you may know, after the 1917 Revolution; Russia for the whole 20th century remained as a socialist nation which sparked many changes and an infamous Cold War. But what if instead of a communist Marxist-Lenin revolution there was just an anti-war settlement rebellion that had an intention just...

Let's say either October Revolution doesn't happen or the Whites win Civil War, what would happen? What would've happened to former Russian Empire territories? What condition would Russia be after the end of it's empire? Would've Hitler rose to power? How would WW2 go? Would there be a different...

This scenario could use some revision, but the basic premise is as follows: Franz Ferdinand is not murdered in 1914. Instead, AH military spending has grown 5-10% from 1906-1911, and and continues to slowly grow from 1912-1916, after which the now "triple monarchy" (really a unified country...

As the 100th anniversary of the failed October Revolution approaches, where the Bolsheviks tried to overthrow the Russian Republic but failed, I wonder whether the October Revolution could have succeeded. What PODs might be neccessary for the Bolsheviks taking over Russia? Kerensky not making...

In July 1917 Lenin was being chased around St. Petersburg by the Kerensky government and the Bolsheviks were being attacked in the Duma. While in hiding the leading Bolsheviks debated whether Lenin and Zinoviev should surrender themselves, but Stalin was convinced that they would be killed if...