DBWI: RSDLP become a major party in Russia

[Library of Alexandria]

In our world, we all know the first socialist state was created after the German victory in the Franco-Prussian war. While france was very well suited for a form of democratic socialism, it's not the only place a socialist state was tried. In Russia, there was a very little-known party that popped up called the RSDLP, which was a Marxist group which opposed the Nardoviks and other agrarian factions in the Late-Absolutist Russian Empire. While they went away after the liberal reforms began to calm most Russians down, we can absolutely see their... controversial form of Socialism becoming popular. Would we have seen a Socialist/Socialist great game, like we saw with the constitutional monarchies and the Democratic Socialists of our time?

 

[M79]

With the Okhrana running around? Even in the tedious days at the end of World War I they still held enough power to essentially kill at will. Do you think that Jughashvili and his lieutenant Beria would have gone tolerated such behavior? Remember the internationally acclaimed book, "My Struggle" by 'Communist' and former RSDLP member V. I. Lenin. Before he escaped, he endured something like three years of continuous torture under Jughashvili, fleeing to the Ottoman Empire where he was nearly shot just outside Kars in 1920. I doubt his experience would isolated had Marxists or these 'Communists' come to power.