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So let's assume that Tsarist Russia doesn't collapse during WW1 and instead manages to hang on just long enough that the Germans implode first, manages to ride out the social turmoil caused by the war (with Poland and Finland becoming autonomous subjects of the Tsar and considerable political reforms for the rest of the empire). Let's further assume that the Tsarist regime is able to replicate German average growth rates over the period between 1913-1989, resulting in a PPP GDP per capita of around $6900 by 1989 but that fertility (due to a slower move from the country to the city and to a slower expansion of university level education) looks more like that of a Latin American state, resulting in around 800 million subjects of the Tsar by the mid 80s.

Let's further assume that Tsarism does not devolve into some sort of royalist fascism.

It seems to me that with a relatively successful economy (compared to most of the world, at least), less political barriers to travel and with higher population growth rates that many millions of the inhabitants of this TL's Russia would be emigrating elsewhere in the world, with wide-ranging cultural and geopolitical effects.

So where would the emigrants from the empire go and what effects would they have?

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