So, your challenge is to have the world develop in such a way that by 1950 an alternate Cold War will have started between a Traditionalist and Monarchical Russia and a Radical Leftist Western world (which is at least North America, possibly Western Europe too).
Ideologically speaking "Tsarist" Russia can be anything from run-of-the-mill Absolutism to Limited Constitutionalism or even some kind of totalitarian pseudo-Fascism. The Western form of Communism instead might be anything from Stalinism to a more moderate forms of Socialism or even Syndicalism.
The ideological clash in this situation would be between Traditionalistic Monarchism, Imperialism and such, and the Revolutionary Left.
Bonus points if Russia manages to not sell Alaska and explain how this would change the overall strategic situation.
Ideologically speaking "Tsarist" Russia can be anything from run-of-the-mill Absolutism to Limited Constitutionalism or even some kind of totalitarian pseudo-Fascism. The Western form of Communism instead might be anything from Stalinism to a more moderate forms of Socialism or even Syndicalism.
The ideological clash in this situation would be between Traditionalistic Monarchism, Imperialism and such, and the Revolutionary Left.
Bonus points if Russia manages to not sell Alaska and explain how this would change the overall strategic situation.