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Otl, when Teddy Roosevelt brought America into ww1 after the sinking of the lusitania, the Entente, now consisting of Russia, Britain, America and France, quite simply crushed the German Empire and Co. While the Treaty of Provence has been criticized for being excessivly cruel to Germany, with...

Was there any chance for French emperor and conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte to scare the Russian tsar Alexander I into making peace with him during the 1812 invasion of Russia? I'm very well aware Napoleon would not be able to defeat a committed Russian army, so maybe we could look for a political...

(Ooc: this TL, Alexander II's son Nicholas doesnt die from illness, and so he becomes Nicholas II. This prevents Alexander III's reactionary and absolute rule and whatnot) The Russian Empire had a magnificent 20th Century. Russia managed to properly industrialize most of siberia, and over his...

What if Tokhtamysh doesn’t attack Timur territories in the Caucasus and Persia. So no war with Timur means more heavily populated Golden Horde as Timur completely razed Golden Horde cities and killing, enslaving population. So how does longer surviving Golden Horde impact Russia, Eastern Europe...

In 1918, the Bolshevik army assassinated the Romanov family, the former royal family of Russia. However, due to his young age and fearing for their image, they spared the youngest son of the family, Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia. He was, however, forced to watch his family's execution...

Assume a total victory in the invasion of Russia, i.e Napoleon gets his decisive battles and the army survives the winter relatively unmolested, to the point he can give Russia whatever terms he wants. How likely would you rate that he creates something akin to the Illyrian Provinces in Austria...

More than a few people look at the Ukraine debacle at having its roots in the war between Georgia and Russia back in 2008. After all, Russia probably figured if they weren't gonna be stopped in Georgia, why not in the Ukraine? Of course, we then got economic sanctions against Russia and so on...

Otl, to say communism was a big deal is a wee bit of an understatement. So what if we were to have the first communist revolution fail? Say kerensky pulls out of world war one, which his otl failure to do so turned many to the bolshevik cause. What happens to the great war if the CP are bought...

Challenge here today is to make it so that these countries are allied or at least friendly towards each other by 1900 (I'm of course referring to the Russian Empire and German Empire when I mean Germany and Russia). Bonus points if you could get this to happen before or just after the...

What if the Japanese Empire invaded Russia during the Civil War in 1917 and 1922

If WW1 is avoided, meaning no 1917 revolution ever occurs, how much longer could the Russian Monarchy last in the Russian empire? Would they be able to adapt to survive to modern day?

What if question since it did not happen in real life. What would have to take place for Democracy to survive in Russia 1992 to present? Has to be after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Any ideas?

During the 1848 Revolutions in the Austrian Empire by the Hungarians their bid for independence was brutally crushed by the Russian Empire. However, what if this never occurred. I suppose this could go two ways: 1. The Russian simply ignore the revolt altogether. 2. The Russians move their army...

After putting down the Hungarian Revolt in 1848 Russia wanted Austria to repay them. They wanted this repayment to come in the form of aid in the Crimean War. In OOT the Austrians declined, but what if this never happens and the Austrian Empire intervened in the Crimean War on the side of the...

Yeltsin firing upon the Duma (1993) was considered a critical error that may have ruined democracy in Russia. Could Russian Democracy have still survived had he not done that? (and a real democracy, not the illusion of choice post-2004)? Would Vladimir Putin have risen to power in that timeline...

Let's say that Russia, around the 1850's-70's, grabs the whole Manchuria from the Qing, also guaranteeing Port-Arthur. Considering that the area was very lightly populated back then and is able to sustain a big population with its natural resources - today Chinese Manchuria has more than 100...

Say that Stirner, contrary to OTL, actively promoted Egoism to a point that his philosophy overtakes Marx's Communist philosophy. Say that when the German Empire sends Vladimir Lennin back to Russia in 1917, that he becomes the leader of a Egoist Revolution, and they win. How would this Russia...

Slavs are often viewed by Westerners as barbaric, Asian-like savages. There are various causes of presence of this idea like - Mongol overlordship over signifcant amount of Slavs, considerable amount of Slavic countries being not as developed as (narrowly defined) "West" (France, England...

On October 12, 1809, Emperor Napoleon I was stabbed in the chest by a German university student named Friedrich Staps. Before his execution by firing quad, Staps claimed that he killed Napoleon out of German nationalism and his hatred of Bonaparte as a tyrant. What if one of Napoleon's aides...

______________________________ "He dreamt of good but created evil." --Raymond Moley ______________________________ "May he live a hundred years!" --Alexey Rikov, leading a chant in the Sovnarkom session, 1926. ______________________________ "Implacable vengeance, rising from a frozen pity in...