russia

So Fascist Russia has been talked about quite a bit, and sometimes it has been said that it would be substantially weaker than the USSR and not exactly the powerhouse that people would think it is. Basically the challenge today is to make it so that not only Russia goes fascist but also that it...

Say that after Russo-Japanese war, the Russians create a stokes like mortar after evaluating the failings of the field artillery. What would the effect would this have on the doctrines of the various countries and more importantly, what effect could this have on WW1?

December 12, 1918 - Kiev Koni versty rvuť nametom, Nam svoboda doroha, Čerez proriz kulemeta Ja šukaju v stepu voroha. Anarchija-mama syniv svojich ljubiť, Anarchija-mama ne prodasť, Svincevym doščem voroha priholubyť, Anarchija-mama za nas! Zustričaly vohnem kindžaľnym, Jak bližče pidpušču...

One of my favorite works here is 1983: Doomsday and that hinges on a Soviet false alarm being acted on by someone who isn't Petrov. Something that it's made me think of is something like this happening more recently, and thought about Russia getting a false alarm a couple weeks after MH 17 was...

So let's say the February revolution still happens just like OTL and the Czar is overthrown and replaced with a provisional, democratically elected left-wing government. What if, the Bolsheviks decide to honor the results of the election instead of starting a coup, and Russia stays on a...

Here's your challenge. Essentially, you need to find a way to take the reputation of Russia being a nightmarish frozen wasteland of authoritarian hell and turn it on its head. What is the best possible scenario for the ideal Russia? Russia should, ideally, be superior to the modern United...

As the tin says, what if the firstborn son of Alexander II survives? For this to happen, let’s assume his trip to Europe doesn’t occur so he doesn’t catch meningitis at age 21. He was more liberal than his younger brother, OTLs Alexander III, so there is a good possibility that he continues...

Personally, I think the only way for Poland to have fought off the initial invasion was if they pressured France and Britain to mobilize beforehand and if they mobilized their troops before the invasion.

https://www.history.com/topics/space-exploration/moon-landing-1969 Seeing as the Moon landing is coming up in a few weeks (about 18 more days if I recall) I had an idea for an alt-history. What if instead of placing a US flag on the Moon, Neil Armstrong plants a United Nations flag. Would this...

As the title suggests, make Russia as an Eastern Orthodox Theocracy, rather than turned into OTL Soviet Union. The POD is from 1900s.

Now I'm very well aware that in the early 1900s Russia was very much a total part of the European landscape and there wasn't "us=Europe" and "them=Russia" mentality that developed after communist takeover of Russia. But my point is, with Russia being allowed to peacefully develope it would...

That is kind of challenge, as it is not one of these "it almost happened IOTL" scenarious, but still propability is bigger than 0% and time travel or UFO landing is not required for IT to happen. Of course, Romanov PLC is easily doable with late 18th POD (for example Konstantin Pavlovich...

On November 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev traveled to Red Square to greet a group of Communist demonstrators. During this stage in his reign, economic downturn had weakened his popularity as both the hardliners and the liberalizers began to attack the General Secretary. While Gorbachev...

A weird scenario that recently came to my mind. So, Assume that Persia either manages to beat Byzantium into submission (or at least complacence) at the culmination of the Byzantine-Sassanian Wars in the early 7th century, thus attaining the top dog position in western and middle Asia for the...

Fun pod: what happens if ww1 begin with austria in the entente( france/britain supporting invasion of serbia) while germany and russia side together against? how changes war? who joins who? surprise me

The Crimean war OTL was fought on a limited front with limited objectives, but the British PM Palmerston (among others) sought to transform the war into a much larger struggle to permanently weaken the Russian Empire. A larger coalition including Sweden, Austria, and Prussia was to be assembled...

How the swedes could prevent the danes from intervening after the Treaty of Roskilde, capturing John Casimir II and securing the claim to the throne (recalling that the Lithuanian nobility had already ceded to Charles X Gustav)? That is, total victory in the Second Northern War.

Let’s say that in the middle of the 19th century the British and Russian Empires got into a personal union through Alexander II and Queen Victoria getting married. How would this new empire shape history? Where would it he headed from? London? St. Petersburg? Or would it have two capitals? How...

What if, after the February Revolution, Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet agreed to sue for peace in March 1917? Germany wouldn't have to send Lenin in April 1917, would they? Would Russia thrives or would a Soviet Coup still happens?

Catherine, wife of Czar Peter III (1762-1804), was assassinated in 1762. Rumors tell that Czar Peter III was behind this and it is no secret he hated his wife Catherine. Now Peter III was not a bad Czar. He fought and beat the Danes in 1762-1765. He formed an alliance with Prussia (God knows...