DBWI: Milyukov Not Assassinated?

Wolfpaw

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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!:eek: Do you think the Kremlin will let him? Or his own government for that matter?)
 
To be honest, Milyukov was a frigging idiot and whoever was responsible for his 'demise' did an excellent job.
Knowing the Russian soul (remember: If you scratch a Russian, the Tartar will show through) and the utter primiteveness of Russian country life, the rule of the Mladarossa was inevitable. It could have transformed Russia into a modern society - if not they had joined the witch hunt against the Central Powers...
So, after Emperor Wilhelm III. granted Nikolay IV. sovereignty over the Moskovite lands, the era of the Third Russian Republic should find its end very soon.
 

Wolfpaw

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So, after Emperor Wilhelm III. granted Nikolay IV. sovereignty over the Moskovite lands, the era of the Third Russian Republic should find its end very soon.

You think the Kaiser will recognize Nicholas' claims to the Cis-Ural region? After all the backstabbing and grief the Romanovs have put the Central Powers through? I don't know. If I were Berlin, I'd rather have a shaky (but controllable) republic on my border than a resurrected (and probably) revanchist Russian bear stretching from Eastern Europe to the Pacific.

Plus, it'd definitely lessen Japanese influence over the Tsar. That could really upset the global balance of power. (Yes, I may be an American, but I'm a big fan of Reichskanzler Kissinger and his policy of realpolitik, unpopular as it may be over here.)
 
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First of all, they'll have to fight it out. - That will keep them busy for some time. - I don't think that Germany or Great Hungary will lend material help to the Siberians, after all, they only remained neutral in the war and didn't support the Central Powers actively either.
The point is that Milyukov and the likes of him are perceived to be more imperialist and dangerous than the followers of Tsarist rule. A backward looking Russia of the Tsars appears to be less a threat than a modern and dynamic republic.
 
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