CENTRAL POWERS WAR PLAN IN RUSSIA
The Mughal and Ottoman Empires, along with China, and Germano-Austria , supported by local nationalist and freindly revolutionary groups from Europe, Central Asia, and China, destroying all in in their path, killing all political leaders not friendly to capitalism or the Kaiser, finally meeting in Moscow to kill the Tsar's family. Then retreat, the population will had us and it will be useless. Successful.
After this advance Russia was left in shambles, most political movements had been smashed. The only groups left to try to rule where foreign puppets who had destroyed society. The anarchists and regional nationalists were the only groups with any power, the nature of anarchism meant that it needed leaders little, and had few party head quarters to smash, but even it was weak, many of the leaders who had made popular had died before their time. Nationalists, who's beliefs arise from local tradition and practice, had slightly more power, most regions that had sought independence wasted no time in setting up local governments. In most central Russian cities power fell one of 4 ways:
1. the city was divided between multiple governments, each controlling neighborhoods, usually an anarchist area, a Marxist area, and a traditional government area.
2. Dual Power, governments competed for legitimacy without physical bases.
3. Full anarchy: no government what so ever (usual a German backed faction tried to rule, but did little but keep out foreign forces and stop competition, they had the best guns so they were tolerated, but any step beyond these to functions and they would be overthrown.)
4. one government
*ITL Germany launched an effort with its allies to kill all communists, anarchists and anti government nationalism, part of the central powers pact is making Socialism and all similar beliefs death penalty crimes, among the victims, Lennon, Goldman, Kropotkin, Hitler, and Luxembourg.