soviet union

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...

What if the Bolsheviks never take over Russia? Thus preventing the Soviet Union from ever existing, and more than likely preventing the spread of Communism to any other country of significance. What I'm interested in is how this specifically effects American politics. Would socialism or...

I had an idea for a potential scenario that would involve Stalin dying earlier (some time early after Barbarossa, 1942 or 43). With the war still going on, no immediate figure takes power, with executive power held in an emergency coalition of figures such as Khrushchev, Molotov, Beria, etc...

What If the US T30 and T34 heavy tanks were put into limited production and used in Europe and exported to countries that could afford them. The vehicles are replaced by the M103 in the 1960. How effective would they be both as propaganda and operationally? What would the Soviets create to...

So, every so often we get a thread about OGAS (the "National Automated System for Computation and Information Processing") and computerizing the Soviet economy. Problem is, even if Viktor Glushkov had received money to continue working on his ideas, the Soviets struggled to meet existing needs...

If Hitler's ordered invasion of France in 1940 had run into some big enough bumps as to make it lose the element of surprise and momentum, and result in a WWI-like stalemate, how would his nominal ally at the time, Stalin, and the USSR as a whole, react to such unfolding of events? 1: Actively...

It's almost impossible to think of Moscow today without the towering figure of Vladimir Lenin dominating the city from the Palace of the Soviets. The design restarted an interest in Neo-Classical architecture that can be seen throughout Russia and former Soviet States to this day. Even the...

So let's say the February revolution still happens just like OTL and the Czar is overthrown and replaced with a provisional, democratically elected left-wing government. What if, the Bolsheviks decide to honor the results of the election instead of starting a coup, and Russia stays on a...

I always thought it was ironic that the Soviet Union, which espoused an ideology that idealized self-governing workers, ultimately made it impossible for workers to negotiate better working conditions and higher pay. My question is rather simple - with a PoD of 1917 (or 1905 if that helps) how...

We have all talked about it, but it has been done. Chip Zdarsky has written a nifty comic mini-series which details what would happen in Marvel characters didn't maintain their same age in a "sliding time scale". As such, the series details, "On this Earth, many Marvel heroes such as Spider-Man...

Basically, assume that British morale is broken after disaster hits their armies in the opening years of WW2. The BEF’s evacuation from Dunkirk is more of a failure, the Italian invasion of Egypt somehow does not have its momentum broken by Operation Compass, and the Luftwffe manages to incur...

On November 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev traveled to Red Square to greet a group of Communist demonstrators. During this stage in his reign, economic downturn had weakened his popularity as both the hardliners and the liberalizers began to attack the General Secretary. While Gorbachev...

What would have happened if the Soviet Union didn't withdraw its troops from Iran following the second World War? How would the allies (and the U.N.) react? Would it lead to something much worse?

The year is 1930 and J. Walther Christie is approached by Soviet OGPU agents through a trade organization named AMTORG to purchase his M1930 tank chassis. This move was apparently illegal given that such a sale was considered exportation of war material. Given the Soviets actually deceived the...

Most British posters are probably aware of the conspiracy theory that Harold Wilson was a KGB agent - the premise had been transformed into a very successful TL, Agent Lavender. Allegations have also came up over the years that Michael Foot, another Labour leader, was also an informant for the...

How could one of Charles Manson followers assasinate a prominent Soviet politician while on the diplomatic mission in the US? And what would happen in this scenario?

Find a way for Germany to join the USSR, or at least for as much of Germany as possible to become a part of it. POD could be before or after WW2. How does this benefit them and not benefit them? How does the rest of the world react to this? What would the Cold War look like, if it does happen...

As the title says, what happens if the Soviets decided to make a Jewish SSR in Central Asia with an idea similar to Jewish Autonomous Oblast, a Soviet Socialist Republic for Jews? Where exactly in Central Asia you reckoned the Jewish SSR will be placed in? Will this Jewish SSR break-away from...

What if Boris Yeltsin, for whatever reason, wasn’t involved in soviet politics?