AH Challenge: An actual Soviet Empire

Just sort of something I was thinking about.

Your challenge is to make the Soviet Union an actual Empire,
that is a Soviet Socialist Monarchy with an Emperor and all.
 
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Wolfpaw

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Somehow have Mladorossi take power. Their slogan was "Tsar and the Soviets!" after all, and Grand Duke Cyril (the eventual pretender to the Russian throne) was one of (if not the most) prominant member of the Imperial Family to put on a red armband and swear loyalty to the February Revolution.

Perhaps a very slim White triumph in the Civil War that shatters the Bolsheviks but doesn't defang workers and peasant movements?
 

Cook

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If one of Stalin's sons survived you could have ended up with Russia and Eastern Europe ruled by a single family like North Korea.
 

Wolfpaw

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Stalin's son Vasily did survive. Having him succeed Stalin would require some major handwavium, especially since Stalin himself (rightly) saw Vasily as a drunken, incompetent, spoiled brat. He was never groomed for leadership and was actually convinced he would be liquidated after Stalin died.

Besides, the USSR by this point is far too anti-monarchist and (hypocritically) anti-imperialist. So even if you have one family ruling it will never be an official empire. That's why I suggested a really early POD, when things had a greater chance for fluctuation/change, etc.
 
Lenin would be more realistic. He was first, he had a good cult of personality, he just didn't have a son (and maybe no inclination).
 
But, Lenin did have a rather pampered daughter... What if Kyril or another Romanov agreed to marry the girl to restore the dynasty as a constitutional monarchy, with Lenin in overall control?

A lot of handwavium needed, but it would resolve the hatred of Western Europe for Russia. Lenin would have probably distanced himself from events in the House of Special Purpose - he was more of a pragmatist than Stalin.
 
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