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I was reading The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James when I came across this passage. This interested me, so I checked google for an online text or at least a title of this story but failed to find anything. For this passage, James cited a book called Voyages to the West by...

Say, Yaroslavl didn't fall to the republicans in 1871 due to a more rapid response by the Muscovites. The Republican movement would be crushed in its infancy, before it ever gathered much public support, much less incite a civil war. The obvious repercussions of this would be that the Moscow...

Say, rather than slaughtering the protesters as in OTL or fully capitulating to their demands, the Czar simply rebuffed them. Would the crowds grow violent and action have to be taken against them anyway? Would this delay or prevent Communist revolution?

Say in the Treaty of Sèvres, France received Palestine while the UK got Syria. What would the Nazis/Vichy government/Free French do with the territory? How would France deal with the Zionist movement?

Surely Genoa would claim a tract of land or some Islands for itself, but would it be feasible for a country as relatively small as Genoa to hold on to any colonies in the New World?