socialism

In a world where the October Revolution doesn't happen in Russia, what becomes of communism and socialisms? Does communism just become a curiosity?

“These are the basic Socialist values and principles – individual liberty, equality, citizenship, the diffusion of power, the importance of collective and social action…these principles may not have the satisfying certainty of Marxist analysis, nor may they constitute quite the same stirring...

This topic has been brought here a few times, but let's see... The year is 1935, Getúlio Vargas has been undemocraticaly ruling Brazil for the last five years. Finally, in November 23 a revolt starts in Natal, northeastern region of Brazil. The revolutionaries take control of the city and...

Nothing to Lose but Your Chains! This is the reboot of my previous timeline The Communist International Becomes the Communist Interstellar? Like the previous timeline this will be inspired by the HOI4 Spartakus mod, where the point of divergence is the Communist Party of Germany being...

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/when-north-koreas-capital-had-so-many-christians-it-was-called-the-jerusalem-of-the-east/107588.htm https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/the-jerusalem-of-the-east One of the North Korean Christians who fled south during the exodus was...

The unexpected appearance of the third way of socialism did occur in Spain during the late 1930s. Short - ten months' long civil war between rebellious reactionaries of the Spanish Armed Forces and the leftist government of the Spanish Republic ended as it began - with a treachery of the parts...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Saint-Just Unlike many other figures of the French Revolution he is almost forgotten I hardly find any book specifically written on him, only 1 or 2 french book and no English book. Saint-Just was the youngest among the Jacobin leaders during the...

Czechoslovakia was one of the world's most industrialized nations in the interwar, with economic performance and standards of living that were on par with the Western European nations. At the beginning of the Cold War it continued to be the most economically developed and productive Eastern Bloc...

Hello! My name is Regnum Dei and this is my first written TL which asks the question: What if WWI had no clear winner. This scenario is inspired by HoI4 mod Red Flood but I will try to include a lot of my ideas and expand apon certain things that are not adressed in the mod. Comments...

Author's Notes: "Crimson Banners Fly" is an alternate history timeline set at the turn of the century, at the precipice of momentous change for the United States. This will be a re-imagining of an older timeline of mine from around 2015/6 called "Paint it Red" (posted only on the Atlas Forum)...

Chapter 0 Articles Of Confederation Ratified! on July 4th, 1776 the Articles of Confederation were ratified over a dispute between pro-slave factions and anti-slave factions. the compromise...

Does anyone have any good books talking about the self-management in Yugoslavia? Recommendations? I would also like to know how and why it failed, why it made unemployment and inflation a big problem over there, and what were the suggested alternatives at the time? Answers would be...

Hi there, long time lurker, first time poster. Even though I'm not a professional historian, work as a developer at the Google Collective, I've always liked to count myself as an avid history enthusiast and liked to think about how everything would've changed if some important event in...

It was a February evening and Teddy Roosevelt the popular progressive president stood on the stage, his cheery demeanor as bright as ever and his mustache as vibrant as the sun. He gave a hardy laugh before continuing his speech. “I am glad that we were able to achieve a great electoral reform...

The august coup and its impact is a difficult topic to discuss. We will never know for sure if it could have succeeded or if the provisional government could have lasted. This is not meant to be an alternate history question, but rather a discussions about what you guys think on tge august...

Oh yes, spicy, but actually Michael Harrington cobbled together a group of leftists, liberals and progressives to run for President as a Democrat (I think). And he was about to make a run for it, to jump ahead to get Ted Kennedy in, but it didn't work, and all of this is called off. But what if...

Algeria was in the state of a post-independence flux. There is a process of nearly a million, former colonialists, the Pieds-Noire, leaving Algeria. They take with them, civil servants, technocrats, businessmen, and merchants. They left behind their restaurants, shops, small businesses...

Apparently the synopsis for this book is that a Fabian organisation from Britain buys land in King Leopold II's Congo and creates a socialist safe haven for anyone who wants in. Can anyone who's read it tell me what actually happens in the book as far as alternate history is concerned? I'm not...

Others requested the discussion on a socialist America in the 1930s to happen here. What I got from the original posters was an even worse 1930s and worse Gilded age leading to uprising. So the discussion has been moved here. Is that feasible? And how would history be affected?

I'm big fan of the Pokemon franchise since I was 8 years old. In my humble opinion, the Pokemon games and animes are one of the best examples of how japanese culture has influenced all of the world. Recently, a question has come to my mind: How would the Pokemon franchise have developed in a...