AHC: Eastern Europe is dominated by Poland

This might not make them the dominant power but it will make them a strong stable power. Sweden wins GNW with invasion of Poland, defeating the Russian threat, since Prussia and Austria are in a couple of major wars for the next few decades, could lead to Austria and maybe Prussia's demise. By the end of Stanislaw's rule, the Sejm would probably be removed due to Sweden's influence maybe through a war or ever weakening power of the Sejm until they are no more.
 
This might not make them the dominant power but it will make them a strong stable power. Sweden wins GNW with invasion of Poland, defeating the Russian threat, since Prussia and Austria are in a couple of major wars for the next few decades, could lead to Austria and maybe Prussia's demise. By the end of Stanislaw's rule, the Sejm would probably be removed due to Sweden's influence maybe through a war or ever weakening power of the Sejm until they are no more.
But Russia could possibly rise again, but they would probably have to fight Commonwealth and Sweden and maybe the Ottomans.
 
But Russia could possibly rise again, but they would probably have to fight Commonwealth and Sweden and maybe the Ottomans.

Peter the Great could be killed at Battle of Poltava so he is succeeded by his son Alexei II. He probably would make peace with Sweden and cancel or at least stop several reforms of his father.
 
This is also a option, but i have a soft spot for Ana and Stephen as PLC rulers
Well, then, have Anna's menopause delayed, and Stephen successfully impregnate her last egg when he sleeps with her for the first and only time. We could call this the miracle of the House of Poland. It's possible, just extremaly unlikely.
 
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This might not make them the dominant power but it will make them a strong stable power. Sweden wins GNW with invasion of Poland, defeating the Russian threat, since Prussia and Austria are in a couple of major wars for the next few decades, could lead to Austria and maybe Prussia's demise. By the end of Stanislaw's rule, the Sejm would probably be removed due to Sweden's influence maybe through a war or ever weakening power of the Sejm until they are no more.
Why would Sweden help removing her main tool of influence in Poland?
 
Why would Sweden help removing her main tool of influence in Poland?
The Sejm was against Sweden and was heavily influenced by Russia, the Sejm was also super corrupt, and Stanislaw was loyal to Karl XII, if the Sejm was abolished and a hereditary absolute monarchy replaces it, a Swedish allied dynasty that's not as corrupt as the Sejm. With the Sejm, Poland could just remove Swedish influence by removing Stanislaw pretty much, with the Sejm Sweden could be in a large war and Poland could just pull an Italy out of nowhere due to corruption and Russian influence.
 
I think Poland can needs to get Upper Silesia including Zaolzie, bits of Lower Silesia and Eastern Pomerania roughly what it get in prewar, I think other parts of lower Silesia is off limits, I think Poland can get Slovakia as well since it is ruling parts of Slovakia in the PLC period of OTL.
 
Operation Unthinkable results in an Allied victory and they decide to prop up Poland to fill the power vacuum in Eastern Europe left by the collapse of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?

(It’s probably ASB, I just thought I’d suggest a more modern POD.)
 
Operation Unthinkable results in an Allied victory and they decide to prop up Poland to fill the power vacuum in Eastern Europe left by the collapse of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?

(It’s probably ASB, I just thought I’d suggest a more modern POD.)

If we are going to use more Modern POD then is better that as Result of the Russo-Polish war the Międzymorze idea of Józef_Piłsudski come to fruition , maybe if the Entente feel that the Bolsheviks were a serious Treat and not only a temporary situation in Russia they would support the plan, Plus no war between Poland and Ukraine and Lithuania we could see a Russo- Polish lead Independence war, Where the Alliance was Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland and Maybe Belarus, against Red Russia, and the aftermath we could see a Eastern Europe dominated by Poland
 
t needed an early abolition of serfdom and to adopt a similar model of centralized military organization as surrounding powers (like Sweden), rather than rely on the whim and wishes of the nobility. It would be brutal, it would not have been undertaken by any of the OTL kings of the Commonwealth (except maybe Stephen Bathory, but he died too early), it would have been unpopular, but it all was necessary.

Mass serfdom is a relatively late development in Poland IMO same as in Russia and highly linked to the rise of mercantilism and then capitalism in the west. Basically you're asking your small landlords to starve in a very unfavorable trade environment if you try to abolish serfdom in the 16th c.

I suspect you'll be overthrown in short order even if the magnates are on your side.
 
Create a scenario in which Poland (in any incarnation, not just the PLC) has either political, cultural or military dominance (or all three) over Eastern Europe.
The Poles end up being the lynch-pin to Napoleonic success in Russia, so Napoleon expands the Grand Duchy of Warsaw to include much of the former PLC. As France's guard dog in the east their power in the region is unrivalled.
 

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The Poles end up being the lynch-pin to Napoleonic success in Russia, so Napoleon expands the Grand Duchy of Warsaw to include much of the former PLC. As France's guard dog in the east their power in the region is unrivalled.
Frankly, Napoleon would have survived longer if he decided to get rid of Prussia and to recreate the PLC and use it as a bait against the Russians, forcing them to make their move first, instead of bringing troops deep in Russia.
 
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