Challenge: Restore the house of Romanov after the the USSR forms

With a PoD after the end of the civil war and before 1991, have the Romanovs return to power in Russia. Try to have this Russian Empire 2.0 keep at least the USSR's pre ww2 borders. Additionally it is preferable but not required that the restoration be the product of internal politics / conflict and not the Germans invading and installing a Tsar. Extra extra points if you restore the 1914 border.
 
Do you mean you want the Tsar as a figure-head monarchy, or as the full-blown ruler of Russia?

I'd think the most likely is as figure head for some type of military dominated Government. But I'm leaving it open as wide open as possible, so either or.
 

Ismail

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Not really possible unless you can somehow see a great big surge in Russian nationalism coupled with dramatic calls within the CPSU itself for a return to the monarchy. Stalin was seen abroad by certain White types abroad as representing a "national" and/or "anti-Jewish" role and merely hoisting pseudo-communist façade, but when Konstantin Rodzaevsky (who was promised a secure job in this "new" USSR) tried to prove this thesis he winded up shot dead in the Lubyanka in 1946.

There actually was a sort of "Monarcho-Soviet" group called the Mladrossi, but many see it as having quickly degenerated into Soviet front to spy on and influence émigrés to return to the USSR so that they could either be neutralized as political opponents or arrested/shot.
 
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I actually think I can do it but unfortunately I've been Chinese toasting [read: binge-drinking] so perhaps a bit later. Suffice it to say the Tsar's family was rehabilitated in 2008. There are very real reasons that it took so long. That's almost 20 years after communism was discredited.

Pro Tip: Keep the Tsar from reuniting with his family. The Soviets were going to kill him. Period. The kids might have made it.
 

yourworstnightmare

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I actually think I can do it but unfortunately I've been Chinese toasting [read: binge-drinking] so perhaps a bit later. Suffice it to say the Tsar's family was rehabilitated in 2008. There are very real reasons that it took so long. That's almost 20 years after communism was discredited.

Pro Tip: Keep the Tsar from reuniting with his family. The Soviets were going to kill him. Period. The kids might have made it.
Some other Romanov family members were able to flee Russia. Doesn't have to be one of Nicky II's kids.

Actually one half assed scenario here: The ASBs help the Nazis to a successful Barbarossa. Some Romanov put on the throne as a figurehead of fascist Russia after the death of Hitler.
 
With a PoD after the end of the civil war and before 1991, have the Romanovs return to power in Russia. Try to have this Russian Empire 2.0 keep at least the USSR's pre ww2 borders. Additionally it is preferable but not required that the restoration be the product of internal politics / conflict and not the Germans invading and installing a Tsar. Extra extra points if you restore the 1914 border.

Given your POD I presume that those who were killed by the communists in OTL remain dead here as well, correct?
 

Ismail

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What's the potential for a 2nd Russian civil war happening during the great purges?
I don't see any potential at all. The purges did not have an anti-Russian character (in fact some commentators say that it undermined the hitherto growing influence of local nationalisms in other SSRs) and the army purges, which were specifically initiated to end the possibility of any sort of coup or disloyalty, obviously would not contribute to a civil war breaking out under any capable military leadership.

It's also worth noting that initially the Great Terror actually had support from down below. Workers used the opportunity to condemn their managers who they described as saboteurs, spies, etc. It wasn't a time wherein everyone hated the government and was kept in check only by fear. In fact many of those arrested viewed their sentences as having been illogical and thus 'clearly' the work of hidden saboteurs and spies who would come to light as they themselves would be released from prison.
 
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