revolution

Is there any way that the protests at Tiananmen Square could escalate into a full blown revolution a la Romania or East Germany? What would be the effects of such a revolution? Would it even succeed?

So, if Mohamed Bouazizi never set himself on fire, and therefore never triggered the Tunisian Revolution, would the Arab Spring even occur? What would be the effects had the Arab Spring never started?

Different countries for the French revolution Could it be in Spain or the United Kingdom or Portugal or Holy Roman Empire or Russian Empire or Ottoman Empire or in another nation? Could it be Eastern nations like China or Japan? What and why this nation has the potential to be a place for the...

If the German Empire and the Triple Alliance in general were victorious in World War One, and the Russian Empire still fell to the Bolsheviks and became the Soviet Union, would Britain and France side with the Soviets against the Germans to restore the balance of power? Or would the Entente...

How could the Arab Spring uprising of 2011- been more successful? Use any POD after 2010 to achieve: 1.) More transitions to a (at least semi-) democratic state in the Arab World 2.) Fewer civil wars 3.) Less backsliding in human rights in the region.

Seeing as how Pan-Africanism started out as a overtly communist revolutionary movement, with many of its early leaders such as George Padmore, Jomo Kenyatta, C.L.R. James, I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson, Chris Brathwaite and several others having direct ties to the Comintern Politburo, how plausible...

The Prussian Revolution 1849 March On waking to an oddly sunny city of Berlin, many could have assumed the day would bring its fair share of oddities. This mindset would have been further justified by the string of revolutions that have shaken the Old World and its ancient feudal...

If the Nazis had won WW2, they would have taken over large portions of the world. How long would their government likely last before being brought down by revolution or other factors? A dozen years? A century? A millennium? Would there have been war with Japan?

From what I've read, the main reason that the first part of the Russian revolution happened is that the Tsar refused to grant rights to the citizenry/establish constitutional monarchy. If those things had happened, would that have prevented the White and then Soviet uprisings? I imagine that the...

France helped the US to win the ARW against Great Britain - but when the revolutionary and republican France fought a decisive war against the same enemey, the United States did nothing to support their former ally. We have to change this. What if an American Legion, consisting either of...

With a POD of 1500, what is the earliest possible far-left revolution there can be ? Kudos for those whom can push it back to the 18th century. I know there were early forms of socialism called utopia, but it wasn't really revolutionary-esque. Would an 18th century far-left revolution happen ?

Here a thought I had some time ago: History teaches us that revolutions get more radical the longer they last. Since the American revolution was quite moderate compared to the French one, we need to make it more radical and violent. For example, what if France never sent troops to America? The...

Based on this TL: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/crisis-in-the-kremlin-an-extended-cold-war-tl.390118/page-52 Following is of spoiler: After the deposition of the hated Ligachev regime after the May Revolution of 1995, the citizens of the former USSR, now renamed the Union of...

most of us do know that, during the 19th century, the balkan territories of the Ottoman Empire would give in to various armed rebel groups of the ethnic-independentist type, leading to the creation (or re-creation) of various nations such as Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania. So...

The United Belgian States were a loose confederation of rebel states located in the previous territory of the Austrian Netherlands, which declared independence in negative response to attempted centralizing and anti-clerical reforms carried out by the austrian crown in the area. The UBS's...

Point of divergence: The Union of the Crowns in the early 1600s creates a fully fledged UK-style union between England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. As years go by, with a different king, the butterflies began to take flight... ... 1. George Winchester September 15, 1692 - January 1, 1709...

Foreword This is a rewrite of my Revolution! TL, originally published here. I've decided to redo nearly the whole thing from the ground up because I noticed a few holes in the original TL that ended up bothering me a bit too much. This version of the TL will include images, maps and infoboxes...

Pretty much what I say in the title. The Founding Fathers were convinced they could prevent the formation of parties and build an ideal republic - can they succeed, and if yes, how?

Candi Prambanan, pictured before the conference. 25th December 1925 Prambanan, Central Java-Dutch East Indies It was a questionable, yet logical move, on why the Indonesian Communist Party decided to held a conference in a Candi complex, where its eerie vibe, and element of unexpectedness may...

This Tree of Liberty, a Trunk of Hickory Colonel Neville Hammond could barely hear. The roar of the guns had sent his eardrums into a state of nervous collapse, huddling in on themselves and ringing like all the bells in St. Luke’s Cathedral. The campaign had been short but grueling. He had...