With a POD ranging from the start of WW1, have Eastern Europe be generally liberal and progressive while Western Europe remains conservative and traditionalist.
Socioeconomically or culturally?
With a POD ranging from the start of WW1, have Eastern Europe be generally liberal and progressive while Western Europe remains conservative and traditionalist.
I'm afraid you would need a POD before 1900 for Western Europe(barring an extraordinary amount of success of *Fascism, or whatever), but Eastern Europe could have been somewhat more culturally progressive, were it not for the tragedy that was Stalinism(and, equally, the anti-leftism backlash that occurred in many Eastern European countries after the fall of the Soviet Union).
nah, eastern europe could really be more progressive than western europe and in some respects it was, for example on abortion and divorce.
a broader leftist movement centred on in Russia (pre WW1 POD) might lead to quite a progressive society in at least parts of Eastern Europe.