communism

Modern revolutionary activity in the Russian Empire began with the 1825 Decembrist revolt. Although serfdom was abolished in 1861, it was done on terms unfavourable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries. A parliament—the State Duma—was established in 1906 after the Russian...

Obviously very implausible but so is basically every Nazi Victory scenario, so... Let's just say that for whatever reason the Nazis are much MUCH more successful during Barbarossa, with Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad falling by 1943 and from they are the war drags on into a horrific...

The PoD is simple, a few weeks following Lenin's own death Trotsky trips and falls down a flight of stairs. It wasn't an assassination, guy genuinely died in a random accident. -Effects on internal Soviet politics in the 1920s and 30s without Trotsky? -No Trotsky as the most prominent leftist...

The Chinese in Indonesia are hated by all Indonesians - by the Islamists as "kafirs", by the nationalists as "collaborators of the colonialists", by the rightists as "communists" and even by the communists as "capitalists" - the overseas Chinese are overrepresented in the economy of countries...

According to historians, the persecution of Christianity in the Soviet Union and by the Communists as a whole was the bloodiest in human history - in fact, according to some historians, more people died for the Christian faith in the 20th century than at any time before since the emergence of...

With every POD possible, how can communism not only spread to at least most of the major nations, but also stable and not plagued by factionalism/collapse?

With all the possible POD’s in any part in history, can communism/some form of it reach at least most of the major nations if not the whole world? A good starting point might be the absence of the Anarchist-Marxist split in the First International as well as future disagreements over orthodoxy...

A small challenge for y’all but also a definitely-not-big question for a commie like me, what if Stalin was an extremely wholesome sane man? Heck, forget it, what if Stalin not only lived over 100 years, but also guide the USSR to become a literal beast of a nation? One example of this came from...

Chapter Twenty Two: The Moscow Summit and Andreeva's debut (January 1988 - August 1988) In May 1988 a major change occurred at the one of the highest levels of Soviet politics, although with little real effect. Second General Secretary Dinmukhamed Kunaev finally left his post, following on from...

Chapter 1: Introduction When the NSDAP and Hitler came to power in 1933 in Germany everyone expected that the 3rd Reich would never ally with the Soviet Union founded in 1922 following the Russian civil war. Moscow which was isolated during The 1930s and 20s saw rapid industrialization under...

I’m wondering what would French politics look like in the 1920s and 1930s following the tried-and-true scenario of Germany going red in the aftermath of the First World War. For the sake of the scenario, let’s say the Spartakusaufstand and similar risings are avoided in 1919/1920 and the...

PREMISE Before I begin my alternative history, I think it is necessary to explain why I decided to write it. I guess disappointment is the main reason. Since I joined this site more than six years ago, I have read and enjoyed many and original alternative histories. Unfortunately, this...

The Cold War of OTL was a dangerous time that saw a lot of proxy wars between the United States, the beacon of Democracy and Capitalism, and the USSR, the Hegemon of Communism. It wouldn't be until the 1980s that the US finally won the Cold War in effect with the USSR and the Warsaw pact...

Suppose that the higher ups in the USSR decide against invading Czechoslovakia for whatever reason, and so Alexander Dubcek stays in power and continues to carry on with his reformist agenda. How would a more democratic Czechoslovakia affect political developments in the East Bloc, and how would...

Is it plausible for China to become communist before Russia or in a timeline where the Bolshevik revolution in Russia fails or never happens, or is this ASB territory? China seems to have the ingredients to go communist post 1911 revolution, with alot of poor and oppressed peasants, political...

The Long Winter of our Discontent How the West Shattered By Waldemar Hirsch, 2023 The 24th October 1929 is a date that will forever scar the human soul, it was on that day a calamitous short sell led to the collapse of the entire American economy in three weeks, the devaluation of the American...

I was thinking recently, when thinking about the topic of a British revolution of what would be the impacts in Scotland? Let's say that Britain has a communist revolution around 1919. I'm not sure how it could happen but let's just say maybe the Germans win WW1 or something like that. That's not...

Since the end of World War II in 1945 and victory over the Axis powers, two new superpowers USSR and USA are locked in open yet restricted geopolitical rivalry which involves both countries and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. Aside from the nuclear arsenal...

What if NATO didn't just include the European Nations but Pacific, African and Asian countries (Japan, Australia and New Zealand) to form TOTO (Trans Oceanic Treaty Organization) or PATO (Pacific Atlantic Treaty Organization) to fight against the USSR? What would have to happen to and how...

IOTL, communist states never arose in western nations. Going against Marx’ predictions, the countries that would fall to communism weren’t highly industrialized capitalist nations, but rather countries with high populations of peasants such as Russia and China. It seems that the western country...