I have an ASB-lite backstory where Prussia antagonises German revolutionaries and spends a decade putting down insurrections in the German Confederation, abroad, and at home before France and Austria crush Prussia. But Austria itself is hijacked by revolutionary sentiment and Russia moves in to protect a rump Prussia and prevent the creation of a Grossdeutschland, frustrating the German revolutionaries. Nevertheless, Austria now contains many more industrial centres and revolutionaries and the very nature of the state must change.
Eventually, I want the early development of *Austromarxism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austromarxism) and *national personal autonomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_personal_autonomy) after "Austria" fails in both its pan-German and pan-Slavic (a war against Russia as an equivalent to the Russian Civil War) attempts and needs to find an ideology which can accommodate a multiethnic, consociational state. This leads to a more successful *Bundism, and along with the survival of the Ottoman Empire and the millet system, leads to a 20th century where consociationalism is the preferred alternative to separatism in some parts of the world.
Anyway, quite apart from this scenario, what do you think would happen in the domestic politics of the Austrian Empire if it decisively won the Austro-Prussian War, but failed to fully unite Germany? It would have to appease the German revolutionaries within its territory somehow. Would the Hungarians still try something in 1867? What happens to the other nationalities in the Austrian Empire?
Eventually, I want the early development of *Austromarxism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austromarxism) and *national personal autonomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_personal_autonomy) after "Austria" fails in both its pan-German and pan-Slavic (a war against Russia as an equivalent to the Russian Civil War) attempts and needs to find an ideology which can accommodate a multiethnic, consociational state. This leads to a more successful *Bundism, and along with the survival of the Ottoman Empire and the millet system, leads to a 20th century where consociationalism is the preferred alternative to separatism in some parts of the world.
Anyway, quite apart from this scenario, what do you think would happen in the domestic politics of the Austrian Empire if it decisively won the Austro-Prussian War, but failed to fully unite Germany? It would have to appease the German revolutionaries within its territory somehow. Would the Hungarians still try something in 1867? What happens to the other nationalities in the Austrian Empire?