soviet civil war

Let's say that rather than Gorbachev a hardliner takes over (say Ligachyov) who clamps down on liberalism and in a last ditch attempt to avoid instability embraces neo-stalinist totalitarianism. This fails and order completely breaks down into the Second Russian Civil War that lasts until the...

With limited inspiration and motivation for working on my original timeline, I've decided to work on a side-project that will cover a similar scope of time, but will be less in-depth and less detailed. Watch me screw up somewhere. Something I've had floating in my head awhile is the premise of...

I had this scenario in mind for quite some time now, and I found absolutely no threads on this scenario. Basically, the CP was divided on the matter of invading Poland, Lenin advocating an aggressive policy while others (Trotsky?) didn't want to risk losing the border with Germany that they had...