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If the russian empire survives its going to be reliant on US capital (even more so if it staggers out of a civil war), so come 1929 its utterly fucked. As others have said butterflying away bolshevism, probably leads to socialism and syndiclaism being a lot stronger. Fascism probably won;t...

The plausibility check is a bit pointless, since it makes no distinction between rhetoric and practice. In practice Social Democracy has definitely embraced market competition and social democracies offshoot bolshevism, despite its radical posturing, has often embraced it too (albeit often in a...

Some options for 17th c POD's -Limit migration across europe, or send more of it to a somehow more succesful prussia which was slower to industrialise than britain. This reduces the spread of newer less labour intensive agricultural techniques and the availaibility of skilled labour and also...

In pure military-economic terms Russian mechanised units perform a fair bit better, since their command remains alive and intact and there may be more focus on producing spare parts and other infrastructure rather than simply making as many tanks as possible as stalinist production target...

Yes because what you said doesn;t really have that much to do with the potato famine since its root causes which lay in the agricultural and trade policies of british imperialism. I mean we can go over the ins and outs of the act of union and how this affected ireland and what the exact legal...

No the potato famine was a fairly direct result of british policy towards grazing land in ireland and because the vast majority of land was owned by english and anglo-irish landlords. The potato was a cheap subsistence crop that could be grown by poor farmers and peasants who did not have access...

The depiction of violence in this seems way over the top. In 1917 the vast majority of soviets abolished the death penalty, it was lenin and the bolsheviks that pushed for its return and brought it back at the second congress in 1918. This is made worse by the first post describing factory...

I meant manufactured in the sense that british colonial agricultural policies, being the offspring of mercantilism meant entire regions grew a very limited variety of crops leaving those regions very open to famine or to poverty caused by sudden shifts in the market. Also victorian policy was to...

Lol Well that would work, if it turned out that spocks genetic material held the key to rebuilding the genesis weapons program you wouldn;t want a dystopian federation getting its hands on him.

If we were talking about things in terms of sheer scale, i would guess Britain would have got my vote, but i guess since this is as much a qualatitive discussion as a quantitive one, I voted for belguim. Mainly just because they turned three whole countries into slave plantations and because so...

I think the main problem with a utopian star trek is it just wouldn;t have got on air, as it was episodes showing the occupation of romulus after its defeat in the earth-romulan war were cut to ribbons by the censors. I think they cut too close to the US's occupation of Hanoi and the Warzsaw...

Russias foreign policy has always pretty much been the same. Things like -Buffer Zone in eastern europe -Ports in baltic -Some hegemony in the balkans and control over constantinople (eg basically a mediteranean port) -Influence in middle east -Expansion in afghanistan and so on are all...

Theres not really any need to discuss strategy, since you can read US strategy of the time in the declassified papers on Dropshot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dropshot Which as far as i can remember covers both a US response to a Warsaw Pact strike and a US pre-emptive strike...

In practice thats virtually ASB though since industrial free market and mixed economies rely on imports and exports and the value of a currency, with which a states foreign policy is inevitably entwined. The US economcially has to help out Britain as the british empire and its dominions are...

The only way this could happen is by having a mentally isolationist government in the US and somehow stopping the US and Imperial Japan going to war over the inevitable clash over imports and spheres of influence. In this fairly unlikely event Britain would probably have to sue for peace, since...

On talk radio the other day Micahel portillo Conservative MP ''Its just another one of those endless crazy schemes we hear about over there, last month it was that boycott against communist japan. With the russian economy so weak you;d think the US could seize the advantage and try to send an...

Er what your proposing there isn't really what the OP refers to. I mean what your referring to basically entails a strict ideological movement bordering on a religious form of national socialism somehow gaining mass appeal in the US and taking power rather than the OP's idea of a populist social...

Hmm i think most people associated the tory cabinet of the time with apeasement, churchil wasn't tarred with the same brush because he'd been a vocal minority within the tory cabinet. Churchill was seen as a good war leader once it started but most people were glad to see him go in 1945 hence...

I don;t even think a russo-german alliance makes much sense without some significant changes, as other posters have noted theres very little reason for them to choose Russia over Austria-Hungary. I can see a less globalised world doing it, austria hungary and the ottomans with worse economies...

You mean could the US have a mass social democratic party? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy Chavismo and social democracy are characterised by populism and soft nationalism. The american radical left were far too principled for this and had entirely different attitudes to...