AH Challenge: Restored Russian Monarchy supported by Western Powers

I got this idea from reading around some other threads about Tsarist Russia. The challenge is to find some way for Russia to gain a new Tsar(Tsarina) that has support from the United States and Great Britain.

Feel free to use any scenario you wish, like the time-honored story of Anastasia surviving in some way, the Bolsheveiks never take power, or another civil war erupts after Stalin dies. The Western Powers don't have to intervene directly (i.e. sending troops), they can demand concessions be made, but they must support the new monarchy in some way shape or form.
 
Well, diplomatically, very little needs to be done. Russia OTL was pretty chummy with the USA. By WW1, the Russians were clearly needed in the Allies.

Add in a setting where Russia avoids provoking Germany in WW1, indeed, the Czar might call for diplomacy instead of troops. If he does, Austria has probably succeeded in crushing Serbia, but they've eaten slow poison and the Czar know this...Austria is going to face internal resistance that will slowly sap the will of the State to survive.

Unlike the other states in Europe, Russia tended to be inwardly focused after its humiliation by the Japanese, a lesson not forgotten by Czar Nicholas II, who recognized that Russia needed to modernize--even to the point of creating a Duma with some democratic powers.

By 1940, Russia has adopted many of the reforms demanded by the peasants, and stolen much of the thunder of would be revolutionaries. Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin, and many of the would be Communist Revolutionaries spend their days counting trees in Siberia. Russia is also slowly industrializing, benefiting a great deal from British investment and retaining a good friendship with the United States.

Still some kind of WW2 is inevitable, and Russia has already been attacked repeatedly over the Manchurian Border by Japan. In the Western Side of the equation, the Poles continue to agitate for their independence--the uprising of 1932 was one more failed movement in the list of generational uprisings. So, the Russians begin to move into Manchuria, provoked by Japan--and with Chiang Kai-shek's blessing. Russia will ultimately include Mongolia and Manchuria, but China will remain independent.

The Situation in the West would probably be Germany and France at each other's throats, and Austria slowly falling apart. Russia isn't missing much in Europe--but Against Japan, the Russians have the major advantage. The Russians Navy might be beatable by Japan, but their land armies are that much stronger--in mere months, the Russians have rolled Japan out of Manchuria and stand at the Yalu River--a Boundary that the Japanese will ultimately sue for peace at, having watched all of their dreams go to pieces as a result.

For the next 70 years, Russia remains a slowly developing and democratizing country, as the Czar becomes a UK style figurehead. This explains why so many Chinese immigrate to Russia throughout the years--because Russia has a pretty good idea of how to run its affairs and a Post-Chiang China is still struggling...
 
I got this idea from reading around some other threads about Tsarist Russia. The challenge is to find some way for Russia to gain a new Tsar(Tsarina) that has support from the United States and Great Britain.
An idea:

Kerensky and the Provisional Government don't collapse upon themselves, keep the Bolsheviks out of power somehow, and the moderate socialists make a loose peace with the Whites to form a united front against the radical communists and the advancing Germans. Then, maybe the Provisional Government elects Prince Georgy Lvov, the PM just before Kerensky, as the new Tsar, enthroned as George II of Russia, with Kerensky remaining as head of government. This new Tsardom is seen as a good moderate state between the autocratic Empire of the Romanovs and the potential radical Communist state, and is thus tolerated by Britain and the US. As the threat of the radicals increases, so does Western support for the nationalist constitutional monarchy that is the new Russia.
 
Good ideas for prior to World War I, but what about these ideas?

1) Western Powers send troops to Russia in 1919 to support the "Whites" against the "Reds." Winston Churchill did advocate a policy of "Kiss the Hun and Kill the Bolshie".

2) Another civil war breaks out after Stalin's death with the Communists heads like Kruschev, Beria & Molotov either being wiped out or being too weak politically to do anything. Anti-Communist forces move in and create a constitutional monarchy with a new Tsar (but not necessarily from the Romanovs).

Like I said, the Monarchy doesn't necessarily have to be a Romanov survivor.
 
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