post-soviet

DISCLAIMER: Please, remember the ''No current politics'' rule and don't discuss the ongoing armed conflict. I am talking about a scenario where the Supreme Soviet manages to oust Yeltsin during the 1993 constitutional crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis...

Ranking among the biggest and most recognizable post-Cold War swords-to-ploughshares programs is Russia’s conversion of its Soviet-era Typhoon and Delta ballistic missile submarines into underwater cargo ships & hydrocarbon fuel carriers. Financed with the help of western partners like Norway...

There are some clear parallels between Tuva and the Baltic states: they are roughly the same size (land area of 175,015 km² for the 3 Baltic states combined, 170,500 km² in case of Tuva), they all gained independence in the aftermath of WW1 but were all annexed into the USSR in 1940s. Yet upon...

Hi there, AH.com! Longtime lurker here who finally decided to make his first post today. Hope I'm not doing anything wrong as far as formatting or forum etiquette is concerned, so please inform me in case I am. Anyway, without any further ado, can you envision any reasonably plausible scenarios...

So what if this guy became President of Russia in 1996? What would happen to the Russian Federation? Chechneya? Yugoslavia? Karabakh-Nagarno Conflict? Butterflies?

One country is a Shia theocracy and "rogue state"(TM) The other has a reputation as "Central Asia's North Korea", complete with a dictator's personality cult. OTL... the two have no major friction and friendly relations. Surprisingly I've never seen any AH or technothriller works exploring a...

Hi, this is my first ever alternatehistory.com timeline, I hope you like it. The idea behind this was to create as many new states in the former Soviet Union as possible, semi-realistically, without changing the general course of history very much. There are various points of divergence, the...

Like the title says. Russia after the collapse of Soviet Union became a democracy only to suffer years of mismanagement, corruption with the rule of oligarchs and mafias, separatism in the Caucasus region, emigrations and failing economy. Until Putin came to power and Russia had gotten slightly...