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what if Russia fashioned itself towards the Qing & Joseon, perhaps if they won against the Qing during their border skirmishes, and successfully Russified the entirety of the Amur Basin / Manchuria

is there a way for Ethiopia to have expanded and conquered the entire Sahel region, maybe to get closer to Christian Europe?

The Soviet Union seems like it fell into an awkward position in its ethnographic balance, the ~50% range of the main ethnic group, since it was too Russian dominated to be viewed as really pluralistic and multi-national, and yet not so much so that like China, the main ethnic population...

Wars to reconquer Poland and Finland are successful, leading to them being inducted as SSRs (Finland being given Karelia, and Poland eventually getting East Prussia) Similarly, Bessarabia is invaded, but ends up incorporating both Moldavia and Wallachia. Transylvania ends up independent...

With better leadership ability from Nicky, avoiding the disastrous Russo-Japanese wars which caused a mini revolution and the even more disastrous move of getting into WW1 which lead to total revolution and him and his family getting killed. What if instead he listens to his advisers more on...

Keep in mind this is a subject I know next to nothing about, so there'll probably be some mistakes here and there. Mikhail Speransky was a Russian statesman whose influence reached its height during the early reign of tsar Alexander I. He was apparently a reformist, but while some of his...

So I'm actually working on a scenario where the Americas were never heavily colonized, and one possible consequence is that the Jesuits wouldn't have the funding to become the force that they did in our timeline. It's possible that Sigismund wouldn't be born or the royal politics that brought...

Let's say that the Bolsheviks collapse in 1918/1919(Fanny Kaplan assassinated Lenin and Trotsky is captured by the Finnish Whites in January 1919, or alternatively, all of them are killed during the July Days) and after crushing the SRs/Komuch, the White generals fail to agree on who will lead...

‘It would require a greater philosopher and historian than I am to explain the causes of the famous Five Years’ War in which Europe was engaged; and, indeed, its origin has always appeared to me to be so complicated, and the books written about it so amazingly hard to understand, that I have...

In an alternate timeline, Nicholas II gets assassinated or abdicates in favor of Michael during the revolution of 1905. I see more of Michael becoming regent first since the assassination part would have had Alexei automatically become heir since the Russian people were unaware of the heir...

Disclaimer: The text is based on an edited Google translation, so if you see errors anywhere, please let me know. And so, I decided to write a TL about the absence of Yeltsin. The specific PoD that led to Boris Yeltsin not becoming a political leader in the late 1980s is not particularly...

I'm helping a friend work on their world for a video game, and part of it involves monarchism becoming a hot button issue during the cold war. Assuming that the USSR still collapses on schedule while monarchism is not only seen as a valid, but secures certain political alliances (at least...

So I have been reading many threads about if Nicholas II died in 1891 and if his brother, George Alexandrovich, survived his illness and thus became Tsar after AIII in 1894. Would George have been able to save Russia from the revolution? I read that he was the most intelligent and outgoing of...

It is August 1917, and the Romanov family is preparing to be transferred to Tobolsk. A somber air fills their palace-turned-prison as no one is under any illusion - this can't mean anything good. Nicholas and Alexandra know they must listen to instructions, whatever the fate may be, but they...

After years of reading alternate historical discussions and stories on this board, I have decided to make my first post. I thank all of you for the marvellous historical insights and creativity. This scenario is rather specific, but lately, I have been reading about British foreign policy...

I've noticed that most alt-his ideas about a "fascist" Russia tend to focus either on wholly reactionary movements like the Black Hundreds and White Army, or minor emigre movements that popped up later on and were inspired by mature fascist movements like in Italy and Germany such as...

The assassination of Archduke Frank Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary at the hands of the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip was the spark that kicked off the most ruinous war to date. While many geopolitical factors were already in motion, and to some degree, unavoidable, to lead the great...

This is far from a subject I'm knowledgeable about, but from what I know Alexander I did some reforms in the early years of his reign, and apparently one project that never took off was a plan to abolish serfdom. So, was there any way he could've pulled it off, and with better results than his...

Hello! As Russia today is still the number one country by area, and Slavic people were rather hidden in the forests of Central-Eastern Europe and Balkans before The Early Middle Ages, what makes all the debate on The Iron Age history of the group heated to its bounds, I am quite interested in...

OTL the Austrian plan for a war against Russia and Serbia was to have one army defending against Serbia and 4 focus and attack against Russia. Even if this wasnt horribly botched like OTL and went perfectly it would still not have achieved much of significance. From 1908 the latest Austria...