AHC: Have the USSR collapse, yet have the successor country have all of their territory

Yes, I have read Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire, though I would like to see how you would do it in a way where it doesn't develop into a crapsack world.
 
You could have a larger and more integrated union state that includes all the republics that wanted to keep the USSR
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You could have a larger and more integrated union state that includes all the republics that wanted to keep the USSR
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I have to wonder why the Russian SFSR had the second-highest 'no' vote compared to most others except Ukraine. ._.

That said, the Union State is your best hope, but even for that POD, you're going to lose the Baltics, at the very minimum. They never forgot how the Russians stuffed the 'yes' word into their mouths on their totally-not-violently-enforced referendum to join the USSR.
 
I have to wonder why the Russian SFSR had the second-highest 'no' vote compared to most others except Ukraine. ._.

Based on the near universal view that 'big' states can develop in lop-sided federations; they pay for everything, they put in the effort, other SSRs are scroungers etc.

Remove populist nationalists like Yeltsin from the picture in both Russia and Ukraine and you've got a shot of the Union State surviving. I believe Yeltsin and several contemporaries from other major SSRs ignored the referendum and unilaterally declared their independence from the USSR to continue their personal goals. No Russia, no Ukraine, no Belarus and a *USSR state is dead in the water. Though I'm surprised more wasn't done to create a Central Asian Federation after it all fell through.
 
Based on the near universal view that 'big' states can develop in lop-sided federations; they pay for everything, they put in the effort, other SSRs are scroungers etc.

Remove populist nationalists like Yeltsin from the picture in both Russia and Ukraine and you've got a shot of the Union State surviving. I believe Yeltsin and several contemporaries from other major SSRs ignored the referendum and unilaterally declared their independence from the USSR to continue their personal goals. No Russia, no Ukraine, no Belarus and a *USSR state is dead in the water. Though I'm surprised more wasn't done to create a Central Asian Federation after it all fell through.

The local dictators don't like sharing power. :3
 
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