General-Secretary Romanov

MrHola

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I think most of us are aware of Grigory Romanov's death on June 3. Romanov was Gorbachev's main rival in the succession stuggle after Konstantin Chernenko's death. Romanov was orignally brought in by Yuri Andropov and was promoted to the Central Committee of the CPSU. Romanov turned out to be an ardent supporter of Andropov's reform programs. During the succession struggle, Gorbachev and his associates painted Romanov as against reforms, something he himself always denied.

So what-if Romanov managed to defeat or outsmart Gorbachev and became General-Secretary in 1985?
 
I'm disappointed. I though this was going to be a TL where Nicholas II embraces Communism and overthrows his own monarchy.
 
I thought this was going to be a discussion about...what it is a discussion about :)

Could a Soviet leader go with slower or less drastic reforms without the force of History bonking him on the head ?

I suppose there is a theoretical level of happy balance out there somewhere, where he could have reformed just SO much, and kept the Communist system intact

No doubt one could point to China as a possible future if all goes tremendously well for him

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
I'm fairly sure Viktor Grishin had a good chance of taking over too. He was pretty hardline, but also pretty old, he may have lasted a few years, but those few years could have been crucial.
 
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