soviet union

Would have South Japan and North Japan Divided instead West Germany and East Germany? Would have Anime, Manga and Light Novel Never Exist? Would Have South and North Japan Reunification instead West Germany and East Germany Reunification 1990? Would Have Soviet Invaded Korea? Would Kuomintang...

Suppose that the higher ups in the USSR decide against invading Czechoslovakia for whatever reason, and so Alexander Dubcek stays in power and continues to carry on with his reformist agenda. How would a more democratic Czechoslovakia affect political developments in the East Bloc, and how would...

The year is 1968. Alexander Dubcek has been chosen as First Secretary of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and rumors have circulated that the more conservative parts of the Communist Party have asked the Soviet Union to intervene; Dubcek's radical changes appear to be heresy against the...

So, in our timeline, Breznev led the USSR as Premier until his death in 82, dying at the age of 76. However, he seemingly started to go senile in 72-74 and would eventually be succeeded by a proto-reformer in Andropov (I think he was, but I'm not 100% sure) and it was the Brezhnev years would...

Something I recently learned is that the Soviet Union was originally a confederation from its founding in 1922 to 1936. After that, it became a federative country. And later on, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to make a new confederation to reform the union. But a coup in August 1991 prevented this...

Fraction of OUN lead by conservative and more moderate Andriy Melnyk lost internal struggle against revolutionary and radical OUN-B fraction. But what if Melnyk's fraction prevails over Bandera? Was it even possible at all? Does it require Bandera's death? And if Melnyk prevails should OUN...

The Soviet Union seems like it fell into an awkward position in its ethnographic balance, the ~50% range of the main ethnic group, since it was too Russian dominated to be viewed as really pluralistic and multi-national, and yet not so much so that like China, the main ethnic population...

Wars to reconquer Poland and Finland are successful, leading to them being inducted as SSRs (Finland being given Karelia, and Poland eventually getting East Prussia) Similarly, Bessarabia is invaded, but ends up incorporating both Moldavia and Wallachia. Transylvania ends up independent...

Since the end of World War II in 1945 and victory over the Axis powers, two new superpowers USSR and USA are locked in open yet restricted geopolitical rivalry which involves both countries and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. Aside from the nuclear arsenal...

I've heard it argued, I think persuasively, that even without lend lease the Soviets would likely have beat the Nazis back. It would have taken longer and would have exacted a much larger toll on the Soviets, but in the end they probably would have fended off Germany. I'm curious what would...

As Leonid Brezhnev is escorted by Richard Nixon for a state dinner, a bomb suddenly explodes in which Brezhnev dies. After the explosion is made broadcasted and made public knowledge across the whole world, soon after, key supporters and the people who make up Brezhnev's power base start...

Stalin during the final days of Nikolai Yezhov's downfall as NKVD chief gets a brain haemorrhage and is out of action for a week, after said week in which a doctors assessment states that no further medical conditions are present, is physically fine, and is in full control of his mental...

During Stalin's funeral as his inner circle is making their speeches, Stalin suddenly wakes up, in full view of everyone. So after being driven to the nearest hospital after which a doctors assessment states that his health problems are all gone and he seems to be in full control of his mental...

Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet delegation in attendance of the bilateral talks with the Czechoslovakian representatives from the 29th of July to 1st of August comes to an agreement with the Czechs that he will not interfere with nor try to stop the reforms of Alexander Dubček and the reformist...

I'm new here on the site, so sorry in advance if there are any mistakes, I'm not very good at English or American politics and I don't know how to make an infobox (if someone makes an infobox in my place kudos to him), but if there's a subject I really like it's the Cold War and its history, so...

As Beria is mulling over Stalins death and the socio-political aftermath, he suddenly receives a surprise visitor, it's deputy defence minister Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov , Zhukov states to Beria that he is here to propose behind Beria to form a duumvirate between themselves and is willing to...

Ever since its inception, the Soviet Union has been plagued with an agricultural crisis that it could never shake off. Various soviet leaders, starting with Georgy Malenkov, tried to rectify it with varying degrees of results. The most radical being Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign in...

IOTL the USSR underwent rapid demographic transition coupled with catastrophic events that stripped its population to levels well below its potential, given Russia's vast land and resources. With a POD after the second world war, is it possible for the Soviet Union to encourage rural settlement...

For example, since the RSFSR in our timeline had no anthem nor a branch party of the CPSU and KGB of its own, and most of the institutions were under direct control of the central state of the USSR, what if Khrushchev or Brezhnev had introduced them, would it have influenced the course of USSR...

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...