russia

Otl, the russian revolution gave a new, scary face to leftism in europe and America. An aggressive communist power that seeked to spread revolution to its old empire. But what if the bolsheviks lost the power struggle, not to Kerensky, but to a hypernationalist, slavic-supremicst (and Rus over...

Using the Great Northern war as POD and assuming its outcome denies Russia any Baltic ports and removes Peter the Great and his pro-western friends from the political picture in Moscow, how do you think European history would unfold with the absence of Russia as a great power? Some might say...

So I've been thinking lately about this topic and I'd like your input. As we all know, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was a diplomatic milestone that ended Britain's Splendid Isolation. The reason is that both signatories felt threatened by Russian expansionism in the Far East. Eventually the...

In a scenario, inwhich Austria-Hungary mobilises according to Case R+B(Russia+Balkans), and therefore deploys the 2nd Army against Russia from the very beginning, what operational options does the K.u.K Army have, if the Russian 3rd and 8th Armies are stopped in East Galicia? How far North can...

So say Russia is able to hold their own on the Eastern front, leading to a shorter war and a more decisively defeated Germany by before 1917. How would this affect the following) 1. Would Russian Royal family be able to survive in power? 2. What territorial gains would Russia get in Treaty of...

AHC: Ukraine Joins NATO before 2014 (POD of 1991) In this Alternate History Challenge you have to get Ukraine into NATO before the Russians can Intervene in Ukraine and take Crimea in 2014. Is this possible with a Pod of 1991 or is it ASB? How will you get Ukraine into NATO? How will Ukraine...

OTL it is very obvious how anti-west and anti-EU Russia is under Putin and the United Russia party Government Your challenge, from a POD of 1981(10 years before USSR falls) is to have a modern day Russia that is more friendly with the west and pro-EU

"Zyuganov Beats Yeltsin in 1996". How does this affect Russian history (pre-2000, so this technically counts)? Does democracy in Russia still die? Faster or slower than normal?

So in the mid 16th Century, the Ottomans considered building a canal between the Volga and the Don rivers. In OTL, their expedition to the region didn't go so well, their forces were stalemated by the newly minted Russian empire and this would eventually be shown to be a strategic victory for...

In 15 of November 1581 Ivan IV (the Terrible/Formidable/Fearsome) ended up causing his daughter in-law to miscarriage (she was the third one, as he sent the 2 first to convents for no reason) and ended up having a fight with his estranged son, beating him in the head and causing him to colapse...

Prussia was briefly a power in central Europe before the Russian Empire razed berlin in the 7 Years War. This destruction of the baltic state meant Sweden was allowed Swedish Pomerania back (+a bit more) so long as Russia was allowed to use some of its ports. Sweden then went onto conquer...

According to this scenario, as a result of the 1812 Treaty of Bucharest, the Russian Empire annexes the Moldavian Principality in its entirety, and not just its Eastern half (which later became known as Bessarabia) as it did in our timeline...

During the Oriental Crisis, Russia and Austria took sides against Muhammad Ali’s Egypt as it expanded into territories held by the Ottoman Empire. Even though Russia and Austria weren’t on good terms with the Ottomans, they weren’t fans of a rising Egypt. However, what if Muhammad Ali decided...

It was a normal cold day in St. Petersburg, Russia on the March of 13, 1881. The "Emancipator" Czar Alexander II was in his royal carriage. He stared out the window and thought about his new constitution reform he was wanting to create. He knew that before his reign, Russia was a great power...

Challenge here is to create a WW2 where the great land powers of Germany, Russia and China fight the great maritime powers of USA, UK and Japan. Basically an Elephant vs a Whale. What happens in this war and who wins?

This thread has quite a good discussion of the lack of full plate armor in in the Middle East (and eastern europe) compared to XV and XVI century western europe:https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/why-didnt-islamic-sultanates-adopt-full-plate-armor.453202/ . They present a good number...

This will be a sounding board for ideas on an alternate history timeline that was started almost 4 years ago. I admit that there are several fantastical ideas here, but that’s why I’d like input and assistance in ironing out the details of this timeline. Thank you to all that will participate...

Due to disagreements about the approach to communism the soviet union and the peoples republic of china split apart diplomatically. But what if China's attempts to take leadership of the communist world escalated into full out war between china and the USSR? Who would win the war and also how...

I recognize this is a bad title, but I don't have anything better. When you look at OTL, a lot of the European Great Powers, and how they created their hegemony, make sense. France was the most populous nation on the continent, and life was often too good or too awful for their populous to...

So, I recently went out on a limb and watched the 1997 animated Don Bluth movie Alexei. I've heard mixed things about it. Some think it's great, some say otherwise; some say it's lack of historical accuracy ruins it, while others say it's its own form of alternate history movie. And we all know...