3) Nicholas II needs to die because the above are impossible while he is still on the throne.
What if he simply refuses the crown. Didn't he not want to be Czar in the first place?
3) Nicholas II needs to die because the above are impossible while he is still on the throne.
Well...if 1900 is too late for any meaningfull and major change, I can accept any POD above 1850.
They were already doing pretty well against Austria-Hungary. Then all the defeats to the Germans come along... and yeah.From my earlier list, I will go with a successfull Gallopoli as the most likely P.O.D. The Russian army does much better particularly against the Austria Hungary. Morale is high, no Febuary Revolution.
No, the Russian monarchy fell as a result of the 1905 Revolution, which put paid to the ideas of "social monarchy" and turned the populace irrevocably against the Tsar.The Russian monarchy fell as a result of events during the First World War.
Well, in Up With the Star Alexander II gets a relatively swift defeat in the Russo-Turkish War, a defeat that both starts the revival of the Ottomans *and* pushes the Tsar into a protracted series of no-holds barred military reform, especially developing with state power and funding a superior railroad network designed for military use, a policy his predecessors continue. The result is that when the Russo-Japanese War happens the IJA gets smacked on land, the IJN kicks ass on sea (thus more inconclusive than IOTL) as a sign of Russian improvement at a military level. This just accelerates the reforms in the next 12 years under Nicholas II, and Russia spends most of WWI fighting on East Prussian soil.
Russia, however, quits when it has to fight on too many fronts and is poised to start entering chaos like OTL Russia and the Tsar decides naturally he doesn't want to fight the Central Powers all on his lonesome, they likewise decide they can't be punitive against a state which saw very little fighting on its soil as opposed to theirs.
A generation later Russian fascism reduces the Romanovs to figureheads, fights nuclear WWII, stalemates because it hasn't the ability to reach or destroy the USA and is too big and powerful relative to its enemies for even gas and nukes to change anything. The Romanovs stay figureheads during the ATL Cold War but the experience of the stagnation of the fascist regime leads to a Romanov restoration because nobody remembers the last time a Romanov exercised unlimited power and they know the reality of the Great People's Movement doing so.
The dynasty survives under Tsarina Olga, and her successor is the one that deposes the fascists via an inversion of the 1991 coup.
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No, if the Russian Monarchy fell as a result of the 1905 revolution then it would have fallen as a result of the 1905 revolution. Instead it took massive famines, alienation amongst the nobility from the government and the military with itself, many defeats at the front, and Tsar Nicholas making a number of mistakes for the monarchy to fall. Even then, its fall was not immediate, nor was it certain. In fact, once you think about all the causes that made the fall possible, it was such a complex web of events that the Russian imperial state is capable of surviving with a very simple POD.No, the Russian monarchy fell as a result of the 1905 Revolution, which put paid to the ideas of "social monarchy" and turned the populace irrevocably against the Tsar.