no soviet union

It's a well known fact that during the russian civil war there was the rise of warlords such as Makhno and Ungern who temporarily carved their own fiefdoms for a variety of reasons after the collapse of the Russian Empire This state of affairs would ultimately not last however, as the soviets...

OTL was 1917 October Revolution. TTL Pugachev rebellion won and Overthrow of Tsarina Catherine II replaced Paul I, Tsar Paul I Survived until 1821 Replaced Nicholas I TTL Decembrist Won Nicholas I Killed replaced Alexander I. Alexander I until 1855 replaced Alexander II, OTL Tsar Alexander...

Whenever I work on maps that are set in a world where the USSR existed like IOTL, or where it never existed, or if its existence was cut short, I feel the need to be accurate in mapping the numerous dams/artificial lakes, and the effects of such buildings that exist IOTL, but which would not in...

Let us suppose that Fanny Kaplan assassinates Lenin in August 1918, and Trotsky captured and executed by the Whites early in 1919, as he nearly was. Without Lenin's political or Trotsky's military leadership, the Red Army ends up losing the Russian Civil War. How would the White Army have ruled...

As we know, Russia was the first constitutionally communist state, forming the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, that would become the Soviet Union with other Soviet Republics. (Sorry Paris Commune, you actually had to win). However, some had said that without hindsight, Russia was...

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist state, emerging from the chaotic end of the Great War. Tsarist Russia was a harsh authoritarian, reactionary state that was still mostly agricultural, and only fell to Communism after years of brutal war and a second coup in 1917 by the Bolsheviks...

If the Soviet Union never existed and Russia became a democratic republic, what would be the views of the notable OTL Soviet politicians in this alternate Russia. What would be the stances of Kruschev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev, etc. if they weren't CPSU party members?

the departure of Russia from ww1 was a massive sigh of relief for the central powers, even if America's entry prevented them from capitalizing (they tried, but failed) on it. But, what if they were unable to force Russia out of the war early, with no Bolshevik revolution? Maybe Lenin and the...

Otl, to say communism was a big deal is a wee bit of an understatement. So what if we were to have the first communist revolution fail? Say kerensky pulls out of world war one, which his otl failure to do so turned many to the bolshevik cause. What happens to the great war if the CP are bought...

So let's assume that Tsarist Russia doesn't collapse during WW1 and instead manages to hang on just long enough that the Germans implode first, manages to ride out the social turmoil caused by the war (with Poland and Finland becoming autonomous subjects of the Tsar and considerable political...