AHC: Russian military victory in WW1

How could the Russian Tsardom achive a military victory against the central powers in WW1?

What would be the consequences of a Russian victory? Some things that might be affedted listed below.
- Internal consequences in Russian empire
- Cultural changes
- Demographic changes
- Changes in borders
- The idea of Pan-Slavism
- Russian perception of self
- The foreign perception of Russia
- Popularity of communist movements in Russia
- Reparations
- Rest of Ententes opinion of Russia

Could Russia have demanded German assistance in developing? How could this be done?
 
Let's assume this is done by letting the Russian Empire hold on until 1918 ends. Technically a military victory by virtue of greater endurance.
The wargoals of Russia were essentially about getting the rest of Poland. Greater Poland, Galicia-Volhynia, and probably parts of Prussia.
 
Let's assume this is done by letting the Russian Empire hold on until 1918 ends. Technically a military victory by virtue of greater endurance.
The wargoals of Russia were essentially about getting the rest of Poland. Greater Poland, Galicia-Volhynia, and probably parts of Prussia.
What would happen to the german residents in these areas?
 
They had a very large population and perhaps with some pre-war improvements to their industry and society they might have been able to utilise said population advantage and maintain an army 3 x that of the Central powers and provide it with enough artillery shells!
 
Considering the existence of the Wolgadeutsche and Baltendeutsche, the Germans would probably be allowed to stay if they prove their loyalty to the Russian Empire.
Their livingstandard would likely drop due to being part of Russia instead of Germany, Russia being a less developed, efficent and skilled than Germany in administration(or just having to much to handle). Something i suspect would drive substantial emigration, perhaps up to 20% of the german population. In their place settlers from Poland, Ukraine and Russia would come.
 
One thing i wonder about is how the idea of Pan-Slavism will fare in this ATL. Would Pan Slavism become a stronger political force, especially in Poland?
 
My best scenario for a Russian military victory would be to have the offensive into East Prussia succeed, without needing more changes you could have Rennenkampf simply press his Army forward and coordinate with Samsonov to forestall the defeat in detail as planned by Hoffman once the 1st Army stalled. That gets you a push likely to the Vistula and almost all of East Prussia in Russian hands. Combined with the success versus A-H the CPs are playing a bad game of recovery or potentially open to calling it a game. You decide from there how much further Russia can or would press Germany and A-H.
 
Listen to Brusilov more and AH is likely done in 1917. Germany is surrounded and now with more slack to pick up. Poland is almost wholly Russian as are Gallicia and Transylvania.
 
As I recall, didn't the Russians launch offensives against Germany earlier than they were really prepared for, to take the pressure off of France? Not doing that, then, might help.

Perhaps a neutral Ottoman Empire (or a successful Dardanelles campaign) to keep supply lines open to the West?
 
My personal favorite is to have Ludendorff persist in trying to take Warsaw in Oct 1914 resulting in 3 Russian armies crushing Ninth Army
 
Let's assume this is done by letting the Russian Empire hold on until 1918 ends. Technically a military victory by virtue of greater endurance.
The wargoals of Russia were essentially about getting the rest of Poland. Greater Poland, Galicia-Volhynia, and probably parts of Prussia.
And of course increased influence in the Balkans. And, when it came to the Ottomans, they wanted the areas that were basically later offered to the Americans as mandates, officially and unofficially. This being Wilsonian Armenia, plus the Straits. I have a book by Martin Gilbert packed away at another's place on the First World War, where it mentions the British telling the Russians before Gallipoli that when the British took Constantinople they would give it to Russia. And if Russia does get Armenia, they wanted to (forget which book told me about this) depopulate the borders and settle Cossacks there. I expect they will also want to gain a bit more influence in Romania, and to get a return to good favor in Bulgaria and Greece.
 
How could the Russian Tsardom achive a military victory against the central powers in WW1?

What would be the consequences of a Russian victory? Some things that might be affedted listed below.
- Internal consequences in Russian empire
- Cultural changes
- Demographic changes
- Changes in borders
- The idea of Pan-Slavism
- Russian perception of self
- The foreign perception of Russia
- Popularity of communist movements in Russia
- Reparations
- Rest of Ententes opinion of Russia

Could Russia have demanded German assistance in developing? How could this be done?
what pods are allowed?
 
As close to WW1 as possible is ideal.
mmm...veeeeeery difficult...maybe an hypothetical austro-russo alliance could work...maybe, but you need a pod farther away in time to allow it. The yhing is that russia had a problem both in quality of its troops and in leadership, while austria lacked only the leadership and germany had them both
 
mmm...veeeeeery difficult...maybe an hypothetical austro-russo alliance could work...maybe, but you need a pod farther away in time to allow it. The yhing is that russia had a problem both in quality of its troops and in leadership, while austria lacked only the leadership and germany had them both
If Russia had a larger infrastructure development in the years leading up to ww1, then they might avoid supply difficulties. This would help the war effort and reduce the chance of revolt.
 
Would like to see the Russians be in a position to establish its own zone of influence in the OTL Sykes-Picot Agreement, so the agreement becomes better known as the Sykes-Picot-Sazonov Agreement in the ATL.
 
As I recall, didn't the Russians launch offensives against Germany earlier than they were really prepared for, to take the pressure off of France? Not doing that, then, might help.

On the other hand, France really needed Russian help to take the pressure off at this time. Russia can't win WW1 if France falls.

In addition to the offensives into East Prussia going better, or the Brusilov offensive being supported by the other major Russian commanders, two other PoDs could keep Russia in the war (and thus make it one of the victors):

* The Ottomans don't join the war (the Russians can continue trading through the Bosporus, meaning they can export their wheat to get cash monies and import more nitrates and finished munitions, meaning their artillery can perform better)

* Romania doesn't join the war (so the Russian front isn't extended by hundreds of miles and Russia doesn't have to divert scarce resources to save Romania from being completely over-run)

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