AHC: Create a large left-wing (constitutional) monarchist movement in a country

Wasn't there a Bulgarian agrarian party that advocated socialistic reforms while keeping mum on the monarchy? Iirc such a party won in the 1920s, but was kicked out by the army
The Bulgarian agrarian figure Alexander Stamboliyski was imprisoned during WW1 for opposing Bulgaria's entry into the war, and he saw Bulgaria as a part of a future south slavic agrarian federation. When asked at his trial if he was a Bulgarian or a Serb he replied that he was a South Slav, and apparently aimed for a peaceful unification of the South Slavic peoples. He alienated the military and Bulgarian nationalists with a strong stance against war and territorial expansion. Stamboliyski signed Bulgaria's peace treaty with the allies as well as an agreement with Yugoslavia to drop Bulgarian claims to Macedonia.

It's hard to call agrarianism capitalist or socialist, agrarians advocated for the interests of farmers and peasants (land reform), but it often came with a right-wing celebration of rural people as preserving authentic religion and tradition, as opposed to materialistic urban society. Agrarianism's closest relatives are probably Distributist economic principles and Jeffersonian democracy.

The agrarian model of village cooperatives was more about keeping farm profits in their community, stabilizing income, and providing credit then it was about taking a side in a capitalism vs. socialism dichotomy. Being interwar Europe, agrarianism often came with large helpings of nationalism, especially when there appeared to be a large bolshevik threat or the landowners were from a different national group (Baltic Germans, Poles, etc.). Land reforms were the most radical in the Estonia and Latvia because they were a way to break the socioeconomic power of the Baltic German nobles and redistribute wealth toward future Latvian and Estonian elites.
 
The Bulgarian agrarian figure Alexander Stamboliyski was imprisoned during WW1 for opposing Bulgaria's entry into the war, and he saw Bulgaria as a part of a future south slavic agrarian federation. When asked at his trial if he was a Bulgarian or a Serb he replied that he was a South Slav, and apparently aimed for a peaceful unification of the South Slavic peoples. He alienated the military and Bulgarian nationalists with a strong stance against war and territorial expansion. Stamboliyski signed Bulgaria's peace treaty with the allies as well as an agreement with Yugoslavia to drop Bulgarian claims to Macedonia.

It's hard to call agrarianism capitalist or socialist, agrarians advocated for the interests of farmers and peasants (land reform), but it often came with a right-wing celebration of rural people as preserving authentic religion and tradition, as opposed to materialistic urban society. Agrarianism's closest relatives are probably Distributist economic principles and Jeffersonian democracy.

The agrarian model of village cooperatives was more about keeping farm profits in their community, stabilizing income, and providing credit then it was about taking a side in a capitalism vs. socialism dichotomy. Being interwar Europe, agrarianism often came with large helpings of nationalism, especially when there appeared to be a large bolshevik threat or the landowners were from a different national group (Baltic Germans, Poles, etc.). Land reforms were the most radical in the Estonia and Latvia because they were a way to break the socioeconomic power of the Baltic German nobles and redistribute wealth toward future Latvian and Estonian elites.


Well, even with the agrarian land reforms and focus, that could still be the case. Perhaps if things go even worse, he could ride back to prominence with the help of the monarchy and unite people with peace and stability.

While the religions and traditions would be untouched, they could still have their own internal reforms and respect of all religions. The big cities would likely transfer more to political centers, trade stations or of the service industry.

So a definite long shot, but interesting to see
 
Got one for China

Maybe this guy ends up being installed as a new monarch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Rongji

Maybe things go a bit different for him or his dad. Perhaps he meets Sun Yat-Sen and things lead to the House of Zhu taking over once more over China and becoming a parliamentary constitutional monarchy

To elaborate more on my somewhat implausible idea, I am thinking that someone from the House of Zhu takes power. Most likely, it would be Zhu Jianfan. If the two have not met, then he and Sun Yat-Sen could meet and perhaps it would inspire Sun that Zhu should be put in as a new constitutional monarchy, in order to ease the transition into democracy.

If things go right, then Zhu Jianfan would likely become a monarch with little administrative power, but still a prominent cultural icon and maybe having some other limited powers. Likely if he lacks an heir, he could adopt Zhu Rongji as his heir. Sun would be Prime Minister and having someone of Ming descent onto China would help out.

I'd have no idea what'd happen to the Qing prince, but they could do a UK scenario where Manchuria becomes parts of China, but with its own autonomy, much like how we have the UK system. in fact, China could borrow more from the UK with them being made of China itself, Manchuria, Tibet and maybe an Uyghur state unless something happens.
 
Greece after the junta? It’d probably be a liberal movement as opposed to a leftist one per se, but if Constantine were more involved in the Metapolitefsi and Karamanlis less so, you might see the left back Constantine as a check on New Democracy.
 
Somehow prevent the collapse of the Russian Empire and get Kirill on the throne? He was a supporter of the "Mladorossi" (Young Russians) who advocated a monarchy combined with socialism (their slogan was "The Tsar and the Soviets").
 
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