The Glowing Dream: A history of Socialist America

[Whiteshore]

It seems like religiously fanatical monarchists keep killing Nabokov Sr whatever the TL as well.

 

[AK47Productions]

I'm going to assume that when the successful Russian Revolution happens, the resultant civil war will be much shorter (given that must be more opposition to the ancien regime) and thus Russia will be better off for it.

That's assuming that the URP dominated Russia isn't so bad that ethnic minorities don't have better luck in splitting off ITTL rather than take their chances with any Russian majority state. Absolute worse case scenario IMO, we're looking at repeats of the Circassian genocide on far greater scale arranged by the URP. Not to mention that TTL's USSR is going to be much more thorough in dismantling the Orthodox church.

It seems like religiously fanatical monarchists keep killing Nabokov Sr whatever the TL as well.

Hell, only thing missing was the presence of a self-hating antisemite.

 

[Whiteshore]

Hell, only thing missing was the presence of a self-hating antisemite.

Tabby would be eight-years old right now.

 

[AK47Productions]

Tabby would be eight-years old right now.

Never bothered to look before this moment but shit you're right, could've sworn he was born before 1897.

 

[Iggies]

Hell, only thing missing was the presence of a self-hating antisemite.

Some life this gentleman had...

 

[Lemonfish]

This is ominous in how this, to me, she will become an evil Tsarina in the future.

That is if her family managed to avoid their OTL fate.

 

[Iggies]

That is if her family managed to avoid their OTL fate.

Maria will do something noteworthy at some point (or have something noteworthy done to her), which is why I keep coming back to her, but besides that I won't say yet.

 

[vlitramonster]

please make the anastasia movie canon i beg of you

 

[Whiteshore]

Hardie and MacDonald were both arrested and held for days.

Is this even legal in Britain? During the Jacobites Rebellions, they didn't exactly arrest the Jacobite MPs.

 

[Iggies]

Is this even legal in Britain? During the Jacobites Rebellions, they didn't exactly arrest the Jacobite MPs.

Honestly I wondered that for a moment as I was writing it and then forgot to check. I can revise it later.

please make the anastasia movie canon i beg of you

I actually love that movie and it sparked my obsession with the Romanovs when I was a kid. Rasputin's bat will be the first chairman of the Communist International.

 

[Alexander the Average]

On the eve of the Ten-Year War, Russia ranked fifth among the industrial powers of the world.

Well that's ominous.

 

[Whiteshore]

Well that's ominous.

A decade-long not!WW1 would be interesting.

 

[Lemonfish]

A decade-long WW1 will probably seen widespread societal collapse in the continental Europe by the end of the war, kind of like red flood scenario.

 

[Malta]

Hah. At this rate it seems “Frick!” Is going to be a much more common curse word in the US.

 

[Iggies]

Changed the bit that has socialist MPs being arrested in Britain, as it's been brought to my attention that this is particularly unrealistic.

 

[PrinceofApathy]

Man, the Jews just cannot catch a break.

 

[Worffan101]

Man, the Jews just cannot catch a break.

As a fairly widespread minority, they, like the Romani, tend to be the first choice for scapegoats when far-right nuts need one.

 

[PrinceofApathy]

As a fairly widespread minority, they, like the Romani, tend to be the first choice for scapegoats when far-right nuts need one.

Indeed.

 

[Odinson]

As a fairly widespread minority, they, like the Romani, tend to be the first choice for scapegoats when far-right nuts need one.

And in some cases left wing ones too. Like the Soviet Union and "rootless cosmopolitans"

 

[Vince]

Well that's ominous.

Doesn't help that what would be the Entente nations are backsliding into reactionary authoritarians.