Faraday Cage
1. The Siberian independence plotters are not found out in 1865 and continue building secret support for a revolution against Russia.
2. Mikhail Bakunin's Collectivists overshadow Marx's faction at the First International in 1868.
3. In the early 1870's, before the Balkan rebellions against the Ottoman Empire and increase in Russian nationalism accordingly, the Siberian revolution begins while the Empire is occupied with the Ottomans. At this time they have not only built up their own local organization but acquired foreign volunteers from the international socialist movement (Siberian independence being supported by socialism's leading figure, the anarchist collectivist Mikhail Bakunin) and foreign arms and funding from the United Kingdom (no love lost between them and the Russian Empire what with Crimea and all) and the United States (which is enjoying the Gilded Age and likes the idea of spreading democracy).
How long could this war go on, could it trigger the Russian revolution early, and do the Siberian democrats and their socialist allies have a chance?
2. Mikhail Bakunin's Collectivists overshadow Marx's faction at the First International in 1868.
3. In the early 1870's, before the Balkan rebellions against the Ottoman Empire and increase in Russian nationalism accordingly, the Siberian revolution begins while the Empire is occupied with the Ottomans. At this time they have not only built up their own local organization but acquired foreign volunteers from the international socialist movement (Siberian independence being supported by socialism's leading figure, the anarchist collectivist Mikhail Bakunin) and foreign arms and funding from the United Kingdom (no love lost between them and the Russian Empire what with Crimea and all) and the United States (which is enjoying the Gilded Age and likes the idea of spreading democracy).
How long could this war go on, could it trigger the Russian revolution early, and do the Siberian democrats and their socialist allies have a chance?