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Just call it "Leninist" that's the catch all term for soviet states in game.

The UASR is in no way anarcho-communist. It's a council communist state in some ways, but it's politics are most in line with the Bolshevik Workers Opposition program.

I would push a choice of expelling the Stalinists or a path focused on removing Stalin from power early and putting power in the hands of Trotsky at the expense of national unity for the USSR. I like having multiple paths and the focus trees are really good at that.

I'd describe the UASR ITTL as broadly in mold of council communism/the workers opposition of early Soviet Russia. (more the latter in a lot of respects in my opinion). Totalitarian is also a term that I struggle to actually see as being worthwhile. It's a term from the Cold War that I don't...

I love the idea of a HOI4 mod. It would work well.

More Union, although they are still a major political force through their control of much of their economy.

It's established that the IWW is truly an international Union in this timeline. With different national sections that affiliate to it as federations. For example. The proper name of the solidarity federation is stated as the "IWW American Section: Industrial Workers Solidarity Union". Presumably...

In general I would say that beyond the Caucasus, the central powers actually did about as well as they possibly could be expected to in this period of the war. Even in OTL the line ended up being very close to Riga, Minsk, and Tbilisi. In fact the ottomans being more realistic in how they...

And as for the more north eastern part of the eastern front, that's not much further than the eastern front went OTL. So it's likely achievable but it thus also wouldn't be particulalry earth shattering. The German advance in general in 1915 did about as much damage as it could possibly do...

Capturing Tbilisi in 1915 was pretty much impossible. Even when the Ottomans were advancing, the caucuses campaign was a disaster for them. It effectively destroyed the 3rd army through attrition and the advantage that the defense naturally has in World War I. They'd have likely better off just...

What would be the point of NATO anymore if Russia joins? Leaving aside how Russia joining likely means alienating all of the formerly Russian countries like the Ukraine and the Baltic states. What happens if Russia goes to war with a neighboring NATO member. The underlying reasons for war don't...

Eh, my personal expectation would be that the Germans and Austrians would only be interested if Russian Poland declares independence. In which case they might lose that. But keeping ahold of Poland would be difficult anyway. It would also be awkward for Germany in particular because intervening...

1905 was really the only time where stable democratic Russia was a conceivable outcome of the whole thing. And so id say that would obviously be the only good option.

Honestly. I don't think a tsar is the best ruler Russia could hope for. I think a RSDWP-Cadet-SR coalition over a newborn republic is the only obvious option as "best hope for Russia". I joked about Trotsky as president. But in all likelihood he's too Jewish to ever be president but it would be...

I counter with a much uglier man who was actually relevant to the 1905 revolution.

What is the context of his death? The time when it happens and how he dies really effects how it goes. It could either serve as the beginning of an even more thorough revolution that establishes a republic, or it could serve as the beginning of harsh reaction that puts in place a regency council...

True. But it could also probably be undone if there was some reason to do it or even if they just wanted to. Estonia and Finland being integrated or in the Soviet orbit eliminates any reason for it not to be the case. The only issue is that the Moscow/Saint Petersburg divide is a divide based on...

Probably not. Even most of their ideas about what the commune should do were retrospective. The Civil War in France lays out Marxs basic ideas about how the commune could have more effectively governed and taken power. The sum of which is that the commune never behaved like it was a regime with...

Honestly, while maintaining a Manchu identity the Qing were likely incapable of modernizing China effectively. You can't import the technology and expertise of modernity without also importing the ideas which were also perceived to go along with them. The Qing modernizing effectively was always...

Marx and Engels would never be put in charge of the commune. Not least because it was a democratic body, but also because Marx and Engels both supported the actual president of the commune (who never actually got to lead it because he was captured early on), Blanqui. Prevent Blanqui from being...