Your challenge is relatively straightforward: with a POD after the 1848 publication of The Communist Manifesto, have a communist state be founded before the year 1900. It doesn't necessarily have to last long, just exist for a time.
This is OTL. Paris Commune 1871.
This brings up a question then: when one says "communist state" what are you looking for exactly. Since especially during this period Marxism, Socialism, Anarchism, and so on were very much being founded and not yet developed fully. So things could change. But then again it goes back to what you or the OP is looking for exactly.Not really a communist state in the typical sense, the commune held elections and protected private property for example.
This raises the question if leninism and stalinism could came to be without WWI.This brings up a question then: when one says "communist state" what are you looking for exactly. Since especially during this period Marxism, Socialism, Anarchism, and so on were very much being founded and not yet developed fully. So things could change. But then again it goes back to what you or the OP is looking for exactly.
This raises the question if leninism and stalinism could came to be without WWI.
I mean similar ideologies, not simple name changes. I think that without WWI ideologies like leninism and stalinism wouldnt take power and marxism would probable continue to be a western phenomena and keep developing in the reformist path it was before the war. At least in europe. The third world is another story.Well it wouldn’t be called Leninism or Stalinism since the USSR wouldn’t exist