Create Socialist Monarchies. As many as possible.

Final Bump. Anybody completely against Tsar Alexander II implementing the first example of something like this?

It'd be a stretch to say "completely against", but I have great reservations about it from my reading on him.

Alexander seems temptingly close but not really the kind of man who would do it - or could.

That being said, I'd have to reread Edvard Radzinsky's book on him to give anything more than a general lack of confidence.
 
I think that the alt-history book "King Ludd" by Roy Lewis is worth naming in this discussion. It depicts a Europe entirely made of Socialist monarchies.

IMVHO, the Habsburgs had many occasions in late 19th c. to turn socialist, as tool to counter nationalist pressure tearing down the Empire. The great bonus of socialism for them was its internationalist stance.
 
I think that the alt-history book "King Ludd" by Roy Lewis is worth naming in this discussion. It depicts a Europe entirely made of Socialist monarchies.

IMVHO, the Habsburgs had many occasions in late 19th c. to turn socialist, as tool to counter nationalist pressure tearing down the Empire. The great bonus of socialism for them was its internationalist stance.


I think the ottoman empire would use this since it is also notorious for having the same problems as Austria... especially in the balkans.
 
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Finland and Iceland could both easily have been started as monarchies instead of republics, giving you at least two additional Scandinavian "socialist" monarchies (provided the same drive towards social democracy exists in Norden ITTL).
 
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