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The 1925 Russian State Duma election was held on the 19th April 1925. As in 1921 it elected 671 members to the State Duma, and as in 1921 the SR under Alexander Kerensky was running for re-election and the same three opposition party leaders were in place.
However, these similarities were deceptive, as there had been significant changes in Russian and European politics in the five years since the last election. Firstly, Viktor Chernov was no longer leading the SR in the Duma, as after infighting between him and Kerensky following the aid crisis, Kerensky had chosen to amalgamate the offices of Minister-President and Prime Minister, and demoted Chernov.
As one might expect this met with considerable controversy, but Kerensky’s opponents would not get to enjoy an opportunity to take his government down at the next election. For one thing, Russia solved its sudden gap in aid by starting to trade with Germany for the first time since before the Great War, and Kerensky's appearances with SPD President Friedrich Ebert were celebrated by some on the left as a demonstration of the progress of international socialism (and condemned by others as a demonstration that socialist politics had sold itself out).
While the former Allies might be angry about this, Kerensky could easily claim the moral high ground, at least to his people- as he said in a speech in 1923, ‘Germany is choking to death, and Britain and France have the nerve to accuse us of wrongdoing as we try to revive it while they have their hands around its neck’. Suffice it to say that Russian relations with many of the Western powers would never quite be ones of simple allyship again, though in the coming years Russia would be seen as at least a tacit ally to Germany thanks to its intervention at a desperate time. Of course, Russia's sympathy to socialism would become a major point of contention once Germany developed a sympathy for fascism.
The other big factor improving the situation for Russia during the early- to mid-1920s was the emergence of the New Economic Policy (NEP). Coming into effect in the summer of 1921, the NEP basically created a mixed-market economy that allowed funding to small- and medium-sized enterprises that ran in a free-market capitalist form, while large industries, banks and foreign trade were nationalized. The economy soon began to boom, and while the Bolsheviks were ambivalent on the policy (their leader Nikolai Bukharin was an adamant supporter of the NEP, but many others in the party spoke against it) the other parties generally supported it, either as a temporary measure in the process of establishing democratic socialism or social democracy (in the case of the SR) or as a permanent move towards industrial capitalism (which was generally the view advanced by Cadet).
Most voters in the 1925 election considered the NEP in its current form to be the best option, and if anything more populist anger was directed against the nouveau riches lifestyle of the so-called ‘NEPmen’ (or нэпманы in Russian) than in support of further movement towards capitalism. Consequently, the SR won an even bigger majority than in 1921, with Cadet and especially the Ukrainian Socialist Bloc losing ground (the latter would soon lose its relevance as a national party as the possibility of the country’s independence from Russia would soon exit the political conversation, and wouldn’t return for almost half a century) while the Bolsheviks recovered a little from their 1921 nadir.
While no one knew at the time, this was to be the last election Alexander Kerensky fought. In the modern day, while a controversial figure, he is often looked back on fondly as the 'father of the republic' (отец республики).
That is probably one of the worst graphic novels ever created and I am not talking about how "dark" it is. Crossed is just a goofy overall comic book, almost comical in its nonsensical plot and terrible writing.
An infobox of World War I in Story of a Life. Tried to make it as accurate as possible to what has been shown in the map game. I don't think history butterflies that much outside of Russia (save for the Russo-Japanese War) until the beginning of the Kuwait Crisis that sparks WW1.
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Ive never read the comics, actually, but I have read @kspence92's Mask of the Red Death - Crossed TL
Preacher is alright, and shows based off both it and The Boys are good.
The same can't be said for the Boys comic and Crossed... They are legit something that some edgy teenage boy would have written with one hand.
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| Directed by | Steve Barron |
| Screenplay by | |
| Based on | Casper the Friendly Ghost by Seymour Reit, Joe Oriolo and Vincent E. Valentine II |
| Produced by | Colin Wilson |
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| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
| Edited by | Michael Kahn |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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| Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $55 million[1] |
| Box office | $287.9 million[1] |
So are you the one who is going to make infoboxes based on movies now
Casper 
Theatrical release posterDirected by Steve Barron Screenplay by Based on Casper the Friendly Ghost
by Seymour Reit, Joe Oriolo and Vincent E. Valentine IIProduced by Colin Wilson Starring
- Christina Ricci
- Bill Pullman
- Judith Hough
- Eric Idle
Cinematography Dean Cundey Edited by Michael Kahn Music by James Horner Production
companiesDistributed by Universal Pictures Release date
- May 26, 1995
Running time 101 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $55 million[1] Box office $287.9 million[1]
Abraham Lincoln II had a lot to live up to. His grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, had saved the Union and founded the National Union Party, which effectively controls American politics to this day. His father, Robert Todd Lincoln, had served for three terms, pulled the nation out of the Long Depression, and steered the ship of state during the First Great War. So naturally, the heir of such a powerful political dynasty did everything in his power to surpass his illustrious ancestors. Did he succeed? It is questionable, to say the least.
Born in 1873, Lincoln, known as Jack to his family, moved through his younger years as a major socialite, reveling in the prestige his family name gave him. However, spurred on his father who was president at the time, he entered politics as a congressional representative of his home district in Illinois, serving for two terms there before losing his bid for reelection in the party primary, likely in reaction to his father's policies on European Intervention. He then went on to become Governor of Illinois, where he attempted numerous times to amend the state's constitution to allow him to serve more than one term. In reaction to this, labeled as another example of "Lincoln Tyranny", he lost a bid for (unconstitutional) reelection in 1912, as part of a wider wave of electoral defeats for the National Union, riding off the coattails of the independent win of William Jennings Bryan that year (the first non-National Union president since the Civil War).
However, following Bryan's disastrous handling of the Silver Crash and the subsequent imposition of the Great Depression, Lincoln saw an opportunity to return to politics. He was elected as one of Illinois's senators, and helped to oversee the shift in National Union factional politics from dominance of the Progress faction, which his father had founded, to the American faction, with a more nationalistic and interventionist outlook. Rather than continue in the Senate, he stepped down after one term, due to word from President Charles Evans Hughes that Hughes wanted Lincoln in his cabinet. He then became Secretary of War, and helped guide American involvement in the Second Great War. Riding off of this success, he announced his candidacy for the presidency, and with the backing of Hughes he handily won in 1924. His race in 1924 contributed to the consolidation of the vast array of opposition groups into one, the Alliance Party, a party that would continually vex Lincoln throughout his time in the presidency.
Lincoln is the longest serving president in US history, having served for five terms in office (though his fifth term would be cut short by his assassination). His time in office would see US involvement in the Third Great War, and he played a key role in ending the European Anarchy once and for all in favor of anti-socialist forces. However, despite his best efforts he would be unable to truly resolve the Great Depression, which continually flared back to life at various points; some say he timed these flare-ups to coincide with key elections, thus allowing him to maintain his power. His numerous pseudo-authoritarian polices, enacted all throughout his time in office, would come back to bite him as he fell victim to a dizzying array of assassination attempts, one of which was ultimately successful. He was driving through Washington DC as part of a victory parade celebrating the end of the European Anarchy when he was shot several times by recent Italian immigrant Giuseppe Zangara, who likely bemoaned the defeat of pro-socialist forces in Europe, and who then was immediately shot by horrified bystanders.
Lincoln's long time vice president and successor, George Pepper, oversaw the imposition of the Years of Steel, a harsh crackdown on dissidents and anti-government threats, both real and imagined. The slow reversal of these policies by President Henry Wallace (who took over following the assassination Alben Barkley, Pepper's successor) led to the successful military candidacy of William Halsey Jr, who continued and intensified the crackdown.
Lincoln is commonly seen as a martyr in the United States, with his more controversial policies quietly swept aside in public memory. Such memorialization has only intensified since the term of his grandson, Abraham Lincoln IV, who too was assassinated. While fears of a Lincoln Tyranny were mostly unproven during the first and second Lincolns to hold the presidency, such sentiments are true when one thinks about Lincoln II and Lincoln IV. For good or for ill, the United States is beholden to the House of Lincoln and the National Union, and that doesn't look to change any time soon.
[based off of the presidential list seen here]
Well that does seem to be a recurring theme with you and your infoboxes
The Name's Bond, James Bond: Part One
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This was inspired by a post on this thread where I mentioned a clerical fascist Mexico setting up pro-Mexican terrorist groups in America. No, it's not part of any timeline (purely because I don't know enough about American politics to come up with a plausible explanation for how this could happen) but it's something I got bored and made.
As a fan of outlander, I love this. Wonder how it would affect America. Good Job
In the runup to the Burn and the SB-19 Experiment, debates had begun in Ni'var over continued Federation membership. Vulcans, in particular, felt that Ni'var science was being exploited by the Federation and its quickly growing bureaucracy grossly superceded homeworld sovereignty. Romulans, however, felt a debt to the Federation after the destruction of Romulus and the Reunification. After the Burn, these debates intensified, with many Vulcans arguing that the Federation had pressured Ni'var into committing a galaxy-wide catastrophe. Romulans believed the Federation was still needed to stabilize the deeply fractured political climate of the galaxy post-Burn.
At the end of Earth 3071, the Ni'var High Command came to an agreement, accepting propositions from both the Vulcan High Council and Romulan Senate to run a non-binding referendum once such an effort was technically feasible as a way to gauge public opinion for such an impactful decision. The vote was one of the largest democratic exercises in recorded history, even with questionable turnout statistics due to the stranded and lost-in-space status of tens of millions of Vulcans and Romulans.
The electorate was extremely divided. A one percent margin was all that separated the two options. Modern political science looks to this referendum as a textbook example of ethnic bloc voting. Although there were more Romulans participating in the vote than Vulcans, more than 90% of Vulcans voted to leave, while Romulans were slightly more divided in their opinions, leading to the secession option winning.
The result was considered a massive upset, and an enormous blow to Federation loyalists across the galaxy. Despite the close results, pro-Federation politicians acquiesced to the majority and allowed the secession process to begin. The referendum is considered to mark the beginning of the Ni'var Isolationist Period as well as the demise of the Federation as a galactic superpower. Within just a few Terran months, Earth seceded from the Federation as well. 100 Earth years after the secession, the Federation claimed only 38 member worlds. Around the same time, the arrival of the USS Discovery from the past started negotiations that resulted in the eventual accession of both worlds back into the Federation, but it would never regain the strength it once had, even after the discovery and reactivation of new dilithium.
(This post on my test thread)
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