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How can Russia be able to get more Russian settlers into Siberia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? How does this impact the Russian Empire and the non-Russians? Would this allow Russia to be a better power?

Without a state-planned economy like the Soviet Union ITTL, a non-communist dictatorial regime in Russia under Kolchak/Wrangel would suffer the effects of the Great Depression and would be more vulnerable to the rise of fascism. How would a Russian variant of fascism look like? Which side would...

What if Elizabeth, Tsarina of Russia from 1741 to 1762, did not die in January of 1762? How does this impact the Seven Years War and the rest of European and world history?

Hi, this is my first ever alternatehistory.com timeline, I hope you like it. The idea behind this was to create as many new states in the former Soviet Union as possible, semi-realistically, without changing the general course of history very much. There are various points of divergence, the...

Know the Yakuts of Siberia? :p So, make these guys build an empire, the PoD have to be between 1100-1650 Bonus if the great Yakutian Empire win a war against Russia :cool:

So I'm catching up on current events after being on vacation for 2 weeks and I find that it was the 19th anniversary of the Kursk submarine disaster. At this point Vladimir Putin had only been president for a year and had not consolidated his power. (His wealth came through corrupt political...

What if the first prince of modern Bulgaria stays in power? for example the coup against him from Russians is discovered and defeated in time? as far as i know he as a pretty good General and was very popular among the people for the victory against the Serbs in 1885, also he had become more...

Essentially, for a timeline I'm working on (Redcoats on the Red Clay Soils), I'm considering having Napoleon die in the Winter of 1812, while trying to invade Russia. I'm doing this, mainly, because I don't want to have another one of those "Everything Outside of North America Remains the Same...

On 14th September 1911 the Russian Prime Minister, Pyotr Stolypin was shot while attending a performance at the Kiev Opera House; he died three days later. But the Tsar was also attending that performance. He got away safely; but what if he had also been killed in the confusion? What happens to...

In the original timeline the provisional government came to power in March of 1917. During the summer of 1917 the Russians launched an offensive called the Kerensky offensive. So these are the places where the changes happen. First, as soon as the Kerensky government comes to power, it was...

I've had this idea kicking around for a week or two and I just wanted to hear peoples' thoughts. Lenin dies early and the Bolsheviks are thrown into chaos. The one who takes Lenin's place turns out to be Alexei Rykov, who won out by getting support from other parties and groups who were less...

Instead of doing Operation Barbarossa, what if Hitler instead decides to focus on invading North Africa and working with Italy. In this scenario, Hitler would try to seize Egypt and the Middle East to cut off the British in the Mediterranean and seize vital oil supplies. Without invading the...

I think it goes without saying that Ivan the Terrible was a complicated man. On the one hand, he was intelligent, devout and strong-willed. On the other, he was prone to paranoia, rages, and bouts of mental instability. While he certainly accomplished a lot, his achievements are overshadowed in...

I'm unsure of how best to phrase the title, but what if, instead of invading France before Russia was ready, the German Empire focused on crushing the Russian bear? Say instead of invading Belgium, Germany, learning from the ACW and Russo-Japanese war, expected a slow and bogged down war and...

I'm interested in an Allied WW1 Victory scenario where all these states become independent and stable. What if Bolsheviks never take over Russia and the Preliminary Government stays in control? Would Russia still try to take back over all their former Empire land even if the treaty of...

As it says on the title, what if Boris Yeltsin didn't have a severe heart attack during the second round of the 1996 election and managed to beat his opponent Gennady Zyuganov? How would modern-day Russia look like without the domination of the CPRF in Russian politics? Would Russia still push...

Okay, so what if the Bolsheviks won the Russian Civil War, but the Red Guard lost the Finnish Civil War? Finland and Russia's histories would both be very different if the other side won their respective civil war, but how would they be different? Would there be a much larger Red Scare in...

Otl, Catherine's, or rather Sophia's future husband, Peter the Third, was originally heir of sweden, only gaining the throne of mighty Russia through Elizabeth's proclamation. But what if she didnt, and Sophia married him as Heir of Sweden? Could she have couped the young king and restore Sweden...

I'd like to start a discussion on a scenario, with a PoD anywhere between 1600 and 1848 (arguably the starting mark of Romanian nationalism), in which the Russian Empire manages to annex the region of Moldavia into its domains after conflicts with the Ottoman Empire. All lands shown in the map...

Hello all, During the reign of Odogei Khan, Mongol forces led by Batu Khan and Subutai won a great victory at the Battle of Mohi in 1241, and Hungary and Croatia were subjugated. Mongol forces began moving into Austria. Wiener Neustadt, located just south of Vienna, was raided in 1241. After...