A United Leftist Europe

I mentioned this in another thread about how long WW1 can be prolonged. As far as I can see, a prolonged Western Front will lead to increased unrest amongst the armed forces and the civillian populations of all the participating nations. As we know, there was the October Revolution in Russia, the French mutinies, the collapse of Austria-Hungary into nationalist revolt, the German Revolution and plenty of near misses in both France and Italy.
So as far as I can tell, Leftist revolutions happening within the warring nations is not too unlikely, hell it could even be seen as the only logical conclusion if neither the Central Powers or the Entente can break through and a diplomatic end cannot be reached.

The problem here is that whichever side collapses first, the other side will take advantage and go for a big push. The only way to prevent this is to have everyone go off at the same time, which is rather difficult :(
I think a POD preceding the war, where the Second International maintains some unity in opposing the conflict would work. It would allow for the increased co-operation that would be required for orcheastrating revolutions in several countries at once.

Anyway, my predicted end result would be something like this.
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So this is what I imagine would come of this big ol' revolution. Britain btw is not part of the USSE. Suprise suprise, they refused to join :rolleyes:
The pink countries have applied to join but don't quite cut it yet.

So, how could this be achieved with a POD no earlier than 1910?
 
to toss out an idea:

no american intervention in WWI, which lets it drag on a bit longer. brest-litovsk or something very like it still signed. a compromise peace in the west is signed when everyone is totally exhausted. the spartacists in germany succeed and a socialist german republic is proclaimed. at this point I'm assuming no or mostly no rump 'white' german state.

it's not hard to guess that the revolutionary struggles throughout central europe that occurred at this time OTL might be more successful. bela kun's hungary might be a reasonable addition to the map posted in the op.

at this point, either the allies intervene - which would lead to much discontent at home, think of the 'hands off russia' movement writ much larger and which could be the immediate impetus for similar revolutions - or they leave the central european states alone to develop themselves, which they will do without many of the problems the soviet union experienced building socialism in russia. this state of affairs continues until a major depression (inevitable, although it might not happen exactly as OTL) afflicts the capitalist west, and france joins the socialist states. britain is a bit more difficult, but perhaps a more radical and less reformist labour party would voluntarily bring britain into the orbit of socialist europe, although this seems like a very unlikely possibility as long as the empire still exists and informs british politics.

the other wildcard, besides britain, is russia. ITTL, is russia the USSR? judging by the map provided, probably not, but still its behavior could range from isolationistic to actively revanchist re: the eastern european territories it lost at brest-litovsk.

just a quick idea off the top of my head. any serious problems?
 
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