Culture and customs in the world without USSR, WWII and Cold War

I assume that Russia managed to avoid the Bolshevik Coup and wait for the end of World War I in one piece, and that in next decades governments would exercise a pro-western, conservative military dictatorship. A formally independent, but de facto subordinated to Russia, Poland also emerged, which got significantly fewer areas in the east, but more from Germany. The defense pact including Russia, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom prevents Germany from revising the Versailles Treaty, even if Hitler comes to power. World War II doesn't break out, the communists do not gain power in China, there is no Cold War and conflicts related to it, like the war in Korea and Vietnam.

What would culture and customs look like in such an alternative 20th century? Would there still be a sexual revolution, a counterculture, a feminist movement, the LGBT movement and the concept of multiculturalism in the Western world? Or maybe it would be much more conservative than it is today?
 
The world would be more conservative and considerably more nationalist.

Everything the Nazis were was already present during the time period. What made the Nazis the Nazis was that they took everything that already was around, dialed it up to 11, and jumped off a bridge with it, dragging the whole world down with them.
 
The world would be more conservative and considerably more nationalist.
Continuation of Belle Epoqe? Or maybe changes would continue, but more slowly and more gradually? Without communism and the second global era of common prosperity in the West and Russia, it would have begun earlier, and so the demand for immigrants from less developed countries would appear sooner. Prosperity would also be conducive to more free customs.
 
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I think the world without WW2, let alone Bolshevism and the Cold War, is basically unimaginable.

WW2 was utterly enormous and touched every culture on the planet in significant ways. For example, without WW2, British food evolves in a completely different way. Without war-warped food, how does Britain interact with foods from outside? How does that change British feelings towards other countries? Considering the importance of food in childhood development, what does that mean for the children born after 1939?

And that is just looking at something as small the diet of a small island off the coast of Europe. As to the big stuff like what happens with 50 million Jews in the world or what happens to a Russia that hasn't been brutalized by Nazi invasion... There are so many changes and so many subtle factors that interact in subtle ways that to even approximate an answer to this question would, I think, take the work of a lifetime.

So try asking me again in 50 years?

Without communism and the second global era of common prosperity in the West and Russia, it would have begun earlier, and so the demand for immigrants from less developed countries would appear sooner. Prosperity would also be conducive to more free customs.

On the flip side, in many places (Sweden for example) fear of Communist revolution spurred on the construction of a social safety net and the cold war encouraged the US to push for freer trade in the Western World.

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