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Many great works of fiction have been dedicated to what the world would look like after a nuclear war, great stories like "Threads" or this own sites "Protect and Survive" have looked at the aftermath of world war 3. However there haven't been as many, realistic, looks at how society would...

It is a pretty well known part of rock history that Rock Legend and Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain struggled with serious depression and drug addiction, as he mentions in his autobiography "All our pretty songs". This seemed to be at its worse in early 94 where he even began to grow estranged...

If independent presidential candidate and Texas businessman Ross Perot never ran in the 1992 presidential election does George Bush Senior have a chance at reelection.

What if America's most powerful socialist actually was allowed to govern a state? In 2005 Jim Douglas got 45% of the vote to Jim Racine's 42% of the vote, this was irrelevant because due to the Vermont constitution if either candidate did not receive 50% of the vote the winner would be chosen by...

I am aware of the unlikeliness of this scenario, but here it goes. So I was re-reading "A Fountainhead Filibustered" today when I thought "What if Hubbard and his 'Sea Organization[1]' invaded some small island nation, something like micronesia in the pacific. Then set up their own nation...

I know many of you would find it unlikely but I believe it was very possible. All Humphrey needed to win were Ohio, Illinois and California all of which he lost by 3 percentage points or less. If he had hammered Nixon on the Paris Peace Accords days before the election he might have swayed...

I know nowadays when someone says "Marxism" the first thought is of Fez wearing Indians waving the red flag but as most of us know Communism came from Europe the sworn enemy of the UAI ((Union of Anti Imperialism)) and given that it's the twentieth anniversery of the Kashimir revolt I thought I...

Carried over from this thread here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=253198 This thread is for the planning of a collaborative time line where New York City would be taken over by a radical terrorist group in a similar fashion to the League of Shadows in "The Dark...

Greetings Denizens of AH.com, most of you don't know who I am but that is not important, don't even know why I brought it up really. What is important, is an idea that I have been tossing around in my head for a while about a new way to tackle a collaborative timeline..... The News Nightly...

How would a "communist" or "socialist" society function under pre-classical a modern era . How would a society overcome the difficulties of transportation, distribution and the many other challenges such a society would face without modern technology.

Many on this site seem to think due to the little change we have seen over the past 4 years of the Obama administration that it wouldn't matter much if McCain won in 08', I disagree and am interested in what others think would have happened differently had McCain won in 2008 and who would run...

POD must be after the publishing of the Communist Manifesto (2/21/1848), what is the earliest possible date for a communist revolution to occur?

How could the dissolution of the USSR following the august coup of 91' be more violent. Perhaps have the coup succeed and have the Russian military try to retain control.

My challenge to you my fellow AHians, is to find a POD Post 2002, without her leaving the Green Party, to make her governor of Massachusetts.

What POD would allow the international community to acknowledge Eco-terrorism as a legitimate threat? Discuss.

Here is a challenge for you my fellow AH.commers, have Operation Red Dog, the "Bayou of Pigs", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Dog Succeed.

Here is a recipe for disaster, find a POD after December 26 1991, where Eduard Limenov and his National Bolshevik party, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party In charge of Russia. How would America and the rest of the Western world react? How would their government function.

Could Perestroika and Glasnost without the coup eventually have worked, would the USSR survive and eventually become a Socialist Democracy?

What if Nestor Mahkno's "The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine " Succeeds in separating from Russia and creating a "Free Territory"? Would it be quickly conquered, would it lead to a democracy a dictatorship, or perhaps against allodds a truly anarchist state? Discuss

Following the First World War, create a POD that turns the USA into a military Junta by 2011.