Alright, here's Lenin-6, to finish the Lenins. In this world, Bakunin wins in the 1872 First International, and socialist anarchism remains dominant. By 1922, Bakuninite soviets have taken over, and are getting invaded by Britain, Japan, and are getting attacked by Marxist death squads led by Lenin, Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky. That's all we know.
I was conservative in my interpretation of this one, and didn't do anything like add additional communist (or rather, socialist anarchist) states in random places. I stuck with keeping the premise front and center. Inspired a bit by Todyo1798's
Blind Luck, I decided to give Germany a strong position on the continent. I also decided to avert WWI, replacing it instead with a string of different, more regional wars, the most notable being the Anglo-Ottoman War - over some nonsense in Egypt - and the Third Balkan War - a war between the German/Austrian alliance and Russia over Balkan nonsense, which
didn't trigger the somewhat different alliance systems but did lead to the fall of the Austrian and Russian empires. I decided to split the loyalist Russians a bit, giving Alexei the British-backed piece, and Michael the German-backed piece. While the Germans haven't invaded Russia proper, keeping their troops in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and the territories they seized from Russia, they don't like the Bakuninites and weren't responsible for their rise. They just prefer to let their British and red rivals kill each other. Speaking of rivalry, the Great Game between Britain and Russia never ended, and the term has come to be used to refer to the Anglo-German rivalry. The British are concerned about German hegemony over the continent, and the French are in full revanchism mode, so Europe could find itself in another great power war. Fun stuff.
Also, I decided to go with the idea of a Meiji China that is on the rise with Japan, and will likely be its rival soon. Sorry, but I thought warlords were a bit overplayed in 1920s Chinas.
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