Wolfpaw
Banned
What if in March of 1925, Russian Prime Minister Pavel Milyukov had not been assassinated?
Milyukov's death has often been accredited as almost, if not as, influential in the destabilization of Russian parliamentary democracy as the ascendence of Tsar Cyril to the throne after the death of Tsar (formerly Grand Duke) Nicholas III in 1929.
So, if Milyukov had avoided the assassin's bullet (historians are still unsure if one of the radical Socialist or Black Hundredist groups was behind it) would he have been able to further strengthen the power of the Duma and democracy? Or was the era of single-party rule by Mladorossi and their Vozhdi (like Kolchak, Kazembek, and later the more noxious bunch of Markov and Rodzaevsky) and joining Britain and France against the Central Powers in World War II unavoidable?
Also, feel free to throw in any comments you have on how the Third Russian Republic and the Empire of Siberia are doing. Almost ten years since the last border skirmishes in the Urals; that's a (relative) accomplishment, eh?
(I've also heard Tsar Nicholas IV wants to visit Moscow!
Do you think the Kremlin will let him? Or his own government for that matter?)
Milyukov's death has often been accredited as almost, if not as, influential in the destabilization of Russian parliamentary democracy as the ascendence of Tsar Cyril to the throne after the death of Tsar (formerly Grand Duke) Nicholas III in 1929.
So, if Milyukov had avoided the assassin's bullet (historians are still unsure if one of the radical Socialist or Black Hundredist groups was behind it) would he have been able to further strengthen the power of the Duma and democracy? Or was the era of single-party rule by Mladorossi and their Vozhdi (like Kolchak, Kazembek, and later the more noxious bunch of Markov and Rodzaevsky) and joining Britain and France against the Central Powers in World War II unavoidable?
Also, feel free to throw in any comments you have on how the Third Russian Republic and the Empire of Siberia are doing. Almost ten years since the last border skirmishes in the Urals; that's a (relative) accomplishment, eh?
(I've also heard Tsar Nicholas IV wants to visit Moscow!