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No, I don't think he would have been although certainly any newborn democratic institution in the Congo would have had rocky origins. As Franz Fanon said, "Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programme of complete disorder."

Where did you get this data from out of interest? For comparison, Robert C Allen has this:

As far as I remember the book doesn't list them. Certainly there was an autocratic military culture that would have prevented Jews from having authority over Orthodox Russians unless there was some sort of secondary influence, as in a family with links to the rich and powerful through finance or...

Prior to 1917, the Russian Empire had one of the highest fertility rates in Europe but that rapidly changed after the revolution. From Robert C. Allen's 'Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution': "In the twentieth century, most Third World countries experienced a...

It's from 'Russian Jews: Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920' by Oleg Butnitskii (translated by Timothy Portice). "Jews faced a large number of restrictions when it came to military service. As a rule, Jews were forbidden from serving as officers in the armed services. Starting from the...

The Russian Army was institutionally anti-semitic. It was forbidden for Jews to serve as officers and between 1874 and 1917 only nine Jews were ever commissioned none of them, as far as I'm aware, reaching above the rank of Captain. Jews (and Polish Catholics) were forbidden from becoming...

You'd probably have to start at some point in the 1800's to be honest. I'd like to see more timelines that focus on aspects of history other than the world wars. I'd like to see timelines about events in Africa, South America, and any other place in the world other than USA, Germany, and UK.

The discussion around trade unions mainly occured during the 1919-1920 period as the trade unions were subordinated to the state. If you look at economic aspects, it's the strikes during the civil war that precluded this position, particularly around the rail workers but also within the...

I think that drastically overestimates Mussolini's importance to the left prior to his abandonment of socialism for fascism.

Too many of the workers organisations were tied to the reformist PSI which tried to stymie conflict in order to gain electoral power and because they feared a blockade from the Allied powers - you even had the Milan PSI, controlled mainly by the reformists, refuse to publish information about...

The thing about the relationship between Tsarism and the Orthodox church is that the church was long before 1900 subordinated to the Tsarist autocracy. All the leaders of the church worshipped the Tsar as much as they worshipped God.

I don't really like the tendency of some to concoct an infallibility of political institutions. There was a period in 1916 where the Bolshevik Party was only something like 10,000 people and in a year they controlled a country of over a hundred million. Ultimately crisis polarises society and as...

Some day in the future? I went travelling for a month, came back and have had a little post-holiday blues coupled with being busy since I have to move house. I've been writing some stuff but not been satisfied so far. Thanks for your continued interest though! I hope I'll get myself sorted and...

Learning about this event, which prior to this thread I knew nothing about, has been more interesting to me than falling asleep whilst reading a thread with the premise 'what if Germany/USA/Britain had a different rifle/plane/boat during WW2?'. I'm really glad when some lesser known events in...

The German Revolution is successful and much of East Europe falls under Communist influence, then a Comintern Vs France and Britain war leads to Communist Europe. The US is isolationist and due to fascists that fled Italy and Germany, a far right movement using the iconography of fascism but...

To be brief, as I'm not at home at the moment but am travelling, the Kerensky offensive was halted earlier and was undertaken somewhat differently and as such the front is slightly better in Ukraine for the Russians. The Romanians still have their victories against the Germans, tying up Central...

Thank you very much for your kind praise. At some point I will be covering all the distinct parts of the Russian Revolution - Finland, Ukraine, Central Asia, Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam etc. There's a lot to cover and honestly so much centres around Petrograd in these events that I've probably...

Thank you both! And yes, a lot of what's come before this has effectively been build up. September and October will be months where a lot of what I've been preparing for pays off - hopefully, it will be convincing and exciting.

The Executive of the Union of Muslim Soviets happened in our timeline, it was one of those lucky coincidences that a lot of things were all going off at once. In mentioning it, I kind of want to make clear that the events of the Russian Revolution aren't just confined to Petrograd even if...

Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 10: The tepid failure of the Moscow State Conference and the success of the radical left in the Petrograd City Duma elections was a signal that reached parts of Russian society other than just the reactionary...