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SELECTED TRANSLATED TEXTS FROM CONTEMPORARY HISTORY A SECONDARY SCHOOL TEXTBOOK FINNISH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC, 2020 ----- INTRODUCTION The history of our modern world is the history of the fraternal advance of socialism and the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism. From the time of the...

"In 1992 a good friend of mine, the Swedish historian Søren Raaby, declared that the 20th century was the "greatest era of of human dissonance ever experienced by man". Whilst this charge was later dubbed the 'Era of Contradictions', it still describes with great accuracy the feelings of rage...

Say the Soviet Union and its satellites reform to some degree in the 70s and 80s and remain a stable and reliable rival (at least on paper) against the United States on the world stage. How would this effect the development of neoconservative thought in America? It's been said before that the...

For the majority of the 19th and 20th centuries, rulers in the European empires had an almost neurotic fear of a pan-European conflict breaking out once again; a 'world war' in the same vein as the Great War¹, and other conflicts in the Early Modern period. Whilst there have been some apparent...

WI: No October Coup? Originally posted by ShrapMetal on Oct 8, 2016

Disclaimer: To start, I'd like to acknowledge the definite influence that Kaiser K's has over the world that I have built. Her A Valkyrie Rises Over Europe timeline is, I believe, one of the best, most in depth, and perhaps definitive portrayals of an American-German cold war scenario not just...

In a world in which the Great Depression wasn't so severe and the Nazis never came to power in Germany, thus leading to a world which straggles along with no large conflict which could seriously be called the 'Second World War', what would the public perception of WW1 be? Personally, I imagine...

It's often been claimed that the Soviet 'pyrrhic victory' over Finland in the Winter War was one of the primary reasons why the Germans invaded the USSR when they did (mid-1941); it gave Hitler and his commanders confidence that they could easily steamroll the Soviet defences before the winter...

I might be treading similar ground with this thread, but the question of if it is possible to 'destroy' the Soviet Union has been on my mind a lot recently. The USSR has been around for almost a hundred years now, and though there have been ample opportunities to prevent its formation and rise...

Today, whilst the Armenian Genocide is recognized as one of the first genocides of the 20th Century is seen as a seminal event of the First World War, it has by-and-large been overshadowed by the brutality of the Holocaust and the likewise war crimes of WWII; to the point in which a number of...

THE JUST FEAR? A Wikibox Timeline By Morraw In the study of Australian politics, 1951 has often been cited as a watershed year much akin to 1901, 1916, 1931, and 1945. Taking place against the backdrop of the Korean War and the height of the Red Scare, Australia was over the course of the...

During the first few centuries after the death of Christ, the faith he brought spread both East and West along the Silk Road to the extreme ends of Eurasia. There, despite decades of hardship and repression by both local hegemons (China in the East; Rome in the West), the new religion begun to...

Whilst religion today in the West still remains a sizeable force for influencing the world-at-large, it can be argued that it's very much taken a back-seat as a key driving force for governance and policy in most Western societies were it was once so overwhelmingly dominant; unlike areas of the...

I'm sorry if this is a bit morbid; but in the lead up to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the organisers of the Games had a fairly reasonable fear that some sort of terrorist attack may occur sometime during the Game's proceedings. After the 1996 bombing this uneasiness was well justified and the...

"Tantalus in Tartarus" Posted on June 16, 2015 by WillWaller2012 Being a Republican in the American South is hard; really, really hard. Not to start this blog out on a negative, but sometimes it occurs to me just how difficult it can be for myself not to just take, support and fight for...

A few months ago, I created this infobox detailing what may have happened if the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing conspiracy succeeded in its goals. Barring the number of casualties from the collapse of the two buildings (I'm unsure of a more reasonable number), what would have been the likely...

Ever since the Falklands War, public opinion regarding ownership of the islands has become extremely polarized; with the populace of Britain and Argentina both being divided into two camps that fervently favour or reject handing the islands back to the Argentines. What would this public opinion...

Throughout pretty much the entirety of civilized history, Asia has been the most dominating force in the entire world. From philosophy to technology to language; the peoples of that continent have left an indelible mark on the face of history, and the sheer cultural influence of states such as...

I'm Back! Posted by Justin Moreland Saturday, February 2, 2002 Hey guys. As most of my readers have noticed, I've haven't been on for a while. Well, if you count two years as just 'a while'. To alleviated any concerns, I think I should explain. When I stopped posting, I decided to focus...

Today, James Buchanan is pretty much universally disliked by anyone with at least a passing interest in Presidential history. His weakness in preventing the secession of states, coupled with his refusal to take a strong stance one way or the other regarding slavery and its expansion whilst in...