Recent content by Dan1988

Well, all of the exotic names all have a clear English translation in "council", so "All power to the Councils" can fit. What matters more, to me, is absolutely simple - will it remain a monarchy or not? If a monarchy, then there would be some continuity with the existing regime (so a lot of...

Well, it's not like Salazar could have tried - made all the more easier by the fact that there was one main pretender to the throne (Duarte Nuno) and all the other claimants (sorry, Brazilian Braganzas) were largely marginal to begin with. However, by that point, things had changed so that if...

Be that it may, at least to me it certainly shows potential - at least for TTL purposes - to be far more than it became IOTL, hence not a dead end. Having at least one part of the Russia-as-cultural-region that is not autocratic by default, as Novgorod was, is a great start to having at least...

My thinking is basically what if, instead of a single entity that called itself Russia, three was instead a continuation of the preceding situation, albeit a bit more consolidated, where there was more than one principality (or, in Novgorod's case, republic) that covered that same space without...

Even if that was the case, certainly an independent surviving Novgorod Republic would have made a difference and helped shore up its connections with the European world - particularly since (as far as I'm aware) it was never subject to Mongol rule.

Just wondering, as a thought exercise - while it was important to defeat the Mongols and end their occupation of what would ultimately become Russia, part of me wonders what would happen if, say, the Novgorod Republic was still alive and kicking (which would probably necessitate a somewhat more...

The one thing underlying all those options and how they would dictate how Trotsky governs the Soviet Union is path dependency and whether the Communists try to break that or find it comfortable. Many of the USSR's leaders grew up under an autocratic system until 1917, hence having little...

Honestly, for me, to pull that off means having a pre-Revolutionary POD more Puritan immigration to (most of) the other 13 colonies rather than just Massachusetts (including Maine as the Massachusetts Bay Colony held that at the time) and Connecticut. One of the reasons why the Revolution...

The anti-slavery lobby in Britain was still a thing; it could be delayed from OTL, but at some point it was going to happen as a compromise between the slaveholding interests and the anti-slavery lobby. Of course, what made the difference was that a lot of the Caribbean colonies based their...

Except that similar sentiments were not unusual throughout the Anglophone Caribbean - hence compensation plus a six-year period of apprenticeship for the ex-slaves as the price for abolition, so it's a gradual process that doesn't change much in terms of the social structure, as racialist and...

Well, at least we know which areas will be going on a hybrid South Africa + generic LatAm historical trajectory. But since the 13 in general had overwhemlingly become prosperous through the slave trade (how else did that cotton make it to New England's textile mills?), one has to temper it with...

Just a minor quibble- Morris bought Riley in 1934, not any time prior in the 1920s.

If we're going for a kinder US during the Cold War, the GMD is a big obstacle here due to Jiang 's authoritarian rule of both the party and state, so it would prefer to seek alternatives here. The main way I could see the US back the GMD early on is if somehow it and not the Soviet Union was...

Sure. There's, of course, possibility for designers to freelance around if need be - for example, IOTL, the design of the Marina was in part due to a Ford designer who was quickly brought on by BL management to do a quick fix, hence the strong similarities with other contemporary Ford products...

^ @Giant Man Eating Rabbits : Keeping in mind, of course, that not all of the models in the Austin stable would have to exactly follow Vauxhall's development and exact naming. One example that comes to bat for me would be the Kadett A/Mk1 Viva - which is actually contemporary with the OTL BMC...