AH Challenge: European-wide Communist Revolution

The goal of this AH challenge is to have a series communistic revolutions which are more or less interconnected or self-sustained take place in more than one country in Europe over a timespan of anywhere between a couple of years to a few decades. These revolutions do not have to be successful, or even long-lived, and not all of Europe or even the majority has to have one; what I am aiming for is an analogue of the anti-Monarchist revolutions of OTL that happened in Europe, but over a much smaller time frame. The revolutions can be internal-an implosion from within-akin to the Russian Revolution; or externally imposed-through any means-such as Communist China over the rest of China.

I've put it here because the POD for anything like this happening is invariably going to be set before 1900.

Knock yourselves out!
 
What if Great Depression is much worse. Huge unemployment, practical disappearance of middle class in Western European industrial democracies, violent suppression of worker strikes and demonstrations... Maybe someone other than Stalin in Moscow...
 
The Soviet Union has a huge chance of overturning the capitalist systems in Western Europe, with France and Italy going to turn Red in the 40s.
How are you going to remove American influence in Western Europe to such an extent that Soviet coercion is successful in instigating a European-wide revolution?
 
How are you going to remove American influence in Western Europe to such an extent that Soviet coercion is successful in instigating a European-wide revolution?

Not too difficult. Probably the first step is to have a worse WWI - this keeps the US out, which in turn probably makes the war uglier, and reinforces the isolationist position. Once you get a strong America First movement, Americans won't want much to do with Europe, and you can probably get an uglier WWII too. But if you can get the "Fortress America" attitude cemented, you could get America to ignore Europe until it's too late.
 

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There were heavy unrest all over Europe after WWI, and bothe Bavaria and Hungary had shortlived communist regimes. As mentioned before this would suite better after 1900. All you need is some seriously fucked up crisis (like as mentioned an even worse WWI).
 
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