OTL, true cavalry -- fighting on horseback -- was *very* relevant in the Russian Civil War (1917-22) as well as some local conflicts of the interbellum period. Cavalry used as mounted infantry was also rather useful on the Eastern and Middle-Eastern fronts of WWI, and even in WWII the Soviets...
Please change STAVKA to GenShtab (General Staff). OTL, stavka was an *emergency* supreme command during WWII; it was formed the day after German invasion (June 22, 1941) and dissolved in the Fall of 1945. There was no stavka during any other Soviet wars, declared or undeclared. So it does not...
OTL, when the Russian monarchy was overthrown in 1917, the revolution lead to a tremendously destructive civil war. The war -- plus starvation and disease it caused -- killed 15+ million people, wiped out 90% of industry & infrastructure, and severely damaged the moral foundations of the...
About Russian serfdom
The liberation decree was issued in 1861, but the actual liberation happned 2 years later in 1863, and some peasants remained "temporarily obligated" for a while after that. But by 1917, all the living ex-serfs were quite old.
Also, there were no shareholders in Russia...
Re: Shards of a broken crescent#1
Great timeline!
But I noticed a couple of errors and a very dubious poin in the last update:
1) Yudenovich should be Yudenich
2) "ukrainian ex-serfs". Russia abolished serfdom in 1861, way before the POD. By 1917, the ex-serfs are too old to move to...