soviet union

What if the USSR and other Socialist powers adopted market Socialism? What would the relationship of these countries be with capitalist powers, considering the two would have a more similar economic system than between capitalism and more orthodox Socialism? Would the system be more tenable than...

What if the many temporarily existing statelets of the Russian Civil War sticked around, atleast until the 30's (similar to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). Is it possible that the Reds and Whites are stuck in stalemate? Perhaps with the aid of the German Empire?

"I know that after my death, they will heap a pile of rubbish on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy." -Joseph Stalin (OTL) "On one cloudy day on May 1942, a Red Army officer known as Polikov Shilo deserted to Nazi Germany. While the Germans had...

In the OTL, the attempted assassination fails with the said assassin got his target wrong (he ended up shooting cosmonauts) and ended up mental asylum until released in 1989. Going by the title says, what consequences happens if Brezhnev is successfully assassinated? So, what happens to Soviet...

Wait, what’s this? This was inspired by my previous timeline with a similar premise. If you haven’t read it, this timeline going to show the effects of a communist uprising in Indonesia during the 1960s, which in our timeline was prevented down thanks to a certain General Suharto. What I want...

Just as the title says, what happens if Soviet Union allowed large-scale immigration into the USSR? Will it resulted in more Chinese people becoming Soviet citizens? In which parts of the USSR will have large numbers of Chinese immigrants? How will this affect on relationship between Soviet...

In a scenario whereas the Soviet Union occupies and formally annexes Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Uyghurstan after WW2, and also one where China is politically divided between a communist, CCP-controlled north and a Kuomintang-controlled south (to ensure that neither of the two Chinas can properly...

Caution: Many of you might find this proposed background sceniario to be borderline impossible. I understand and agree, but please, let's try focusing on the actual question and not the background. Background: During the German occupation of Austria, Hungary sends its army to occupy...

What if Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia managed to spread to other Warsaw Pact nations? How could've the mass protests managed to get more support in other countries thus making it harder for Soviets to put it down? And what happens once it's impossible to invade Czechoslovakia since the Warsaw...

This is a concept that I have seen mentioned in several scenarios, including For All Time, but I do not think that I have seen anyone get into the specifics of what this would entail. So... let's get into specifics! Let's say that, at some point in the middle to latter part of the 1940s, the...

Based on this post by David T, and the thought of Russian Germans suddenly popping into my mind. Basically, what if Soviet authorities had, contrary to local Khazak interests, managed to create a German autonomous republic in northern Kazakhstan in the 1970's, as a compensatory measure for...

So, basically, what if the geopolitical divorce between the USSR and Maoist China in the late 1960's had actually escalated to war, rather than being isolated to a few border skirmishes? Which side would be most likely to win? From the looks of it, the PRC had a large army on paper, but i hear...

Billy Joel "A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia" (1987) During the Kalter Krieg, German Empire censored rock music because it was seen as part of socialist propaganda directed against forces of conservatism and Anglo-Germanic culture. When the Prime Minister of Germany, Gerhard Frey...

OOC: In case you missed the title (which most of you don't but I have encountered a few people over the course of my time here who have), this is a DBWI, also known as a Double-Blind What If. If you don't know what that is, =double&s[]=blind']this article explains it far better than I ever...

If you're wondering about the title, a few months back I made a thread for explaining the backstory for an alternate-history map I made, the link to which you can find in my signature below; one of these PoDs had Leon Trotsky move directly to France instead of Turkey after his initial exile, and...

Ignoring the technical plausibility of the German secret service managing to infiltrate Skorzeny into Iran... what if the alleged Operation Long Jump (Unternehmen Weitsprung) of late 1943 had been successful in murdering at least the Soviet leader, Stalin? What are the short-term consequences...

Billy Joel "A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia" (1987) During the Cold War, rock music was censored in the Imperial Bloc countries because it was not seen as a part of Anglo-Germanic culture. In the late 1980s, German leader Gerhard Frey implemented Öffentlichkeit - the German policy of...

According to Wikipedia, Goulash communism (AKA Kadarism) is a style of communism practiced by post-1956 Hungary, which advocated for more human rights and a more open market (atleast from what I believe). So, the question is how could the USSR adopt this kind of socialism before its collapse in...

How small would any Chinese Soviet Socialist Republic have to be to be a member of the USSR? And how much smaller would any Chinese Autonomous Republic have to be to be a part of the RSFSR? Considering Mongolia, with all its closeness to the USSR (its nominally sovereign president was purged...

Based on my understanding of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis was understandably a major contributor to the later U.S. policy of detente towards the Soviet Union. However, the official detente period didn't actually begin until years later when the first round of anti-nuclear proliferation...