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One thing to consider is that prior to 1914 the Bolsheviks were a tiny organisation of around than 10,000 with their leadership in exile and their membership hounded by the police. Revolutionary periods can upturn all the existing order beyond anyone's expectations and you don't need 100% of the...

Do you have a link to where they talk about their plans? As Tiburon said they seem to be making changes, the whole path you can take to just automatically take over as a fully functional new SU should definitely be scrapped, but hopefully there'll still be an option to take Russia leftward.

This is Bukharin in my game:

The main issue I have, and it's kind of an issue with a lot of the syndicalist politics of Kaiserreich, is that it sort of assumes that the key figures of Syndicalism will basically be the OTL figures of Communist and Social Democratic parties as opposed to the trade unionists, syndicalists and...

Decided to buy HOI4 and downloaded this, mainly just sort of trying to figure out HOI4 more than anything at the moment. Played Russia because they used to be a good 'starter' nation and followed through the route of forming the Soviet Union which was pretty similar to the DH version but I was a...

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/secret-policemen-and-funky-bass-lines-a-somali-democratic-republic-tl.441950/ @GoulashComrade Always interested in timelines set in areas that generally aren't usually discussed but this was a particularly interesting timeline with some very...

You might make comparisons to some trade unions in Spain and in Italy during the 1910s-1930s which undermined the more radical trade unions and socialist movement but those arose in conditions where, conceivably, workers could at least vote in elections and could see some basic rights improved...

I think by the time of Lenin's death most of the institutional problems with the Soviet Union that culminated in Stalin had been put into place. You can suggest a lot of reasons for why that might have been the case ranging from the poor choices of the Bolsheviks to the unfavourable conditions...

This is definitely one of the strengths of the Reds! timeline in that yes it unashamedly sets out to convey the possibilities of a communist America but does so in such a way that recognises that revolution is not a dinner party.

Look, you seem to be reading into this that I somehow support Stalin and collectivisation: I don't. However, it's an era of history I am interested in and you could say that I've read a little around the subject. It's a tad more complicated than "Stalin bad" (even if, yes, he really was) with...

I don't really know where I suggested that rural life wasn't bad for a lot of the poorer farm workers? I simply asserted that factory work in the early industrial revolution was notoriously bad. There are many examples of the untold suffering and immiseration heaped upon factory workers. William...

The origins of British capitalism were found in the late 1600's and 1700's when the British state enforced enclosure. The idea that factory work is easier or pays better is not historically accurate, there is much research about the degraded conditions of workers in factories. In "The Origins of...

Interesting timeline so far! Got some thoughts that if I'm not busy I'll type up at some point but overall looking forward to where you take it. If you haven't already I would recommend reading Robert Allen's Farm to Factory. During this period in OTL the Soviet Union was the fastest growing...

I don't doubt that there are many translation particularities but Orlando Figes is generally considered one of the premier historians of the Russian Revolution. The source he gives when he quotes Alexseyev is Martynov's biography "Kornilov". It's also translated as 'sheep' in Michael Kort's "The...

Potentially. Kerensky's support or opposition to any coup is practically meaningless by August as the mechanisms and organisations that were ready to mobilise troops and armed workers in Ptreograd existed outside his hierarchy of power. The Soviet Executive at this point is mainly comprised of...

Where have you gotten this assumption? Because someone who has their political statements written by others and is seen by industrialists and Kadet politicians as a pawn being depicted as a 'sheep' fits perfectly. It's quoted as sheep in Figes' "A People's Tragedy" and Figes' is hardly a...

I think you vastly underestimate the capabilities of the Soviet to organise a defence and the quality of that defence as well as vastly overestimate Kornilov's chances. The Interdistrict Committee of the Soviets established the Committee for Struggle against the Counter Revolution which was...

I generally think people should write about what they know, and make sure that you have done enough research to ensure that what you write isn't fundamentally flawed. Maybe read a general history of the world, or a particular region or country that you find interesting, and if one particular...

Whilst it is true that China was a predominantly peasant nation, it's untrue that there were absolutely no trade unions or that their activities weren't integral to the early development of the revolutionary movement within China. During the May Fourth Movement of 1919, tens of thousands of...

There was a strand of Marxism around the 1890's and early 1900's prior to the first world war that saw imperialism as a necessary stage of history that would drag colonies into the capitalist mode of production therefore paving the way towards socialism. In Italy, Antonio Labriola (not to be...