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I was thinking about a TL with a different WWI where one effect is that the Socialist Revolutionaries take over Russia. One thing that stands out is that this movement was heavily influenced by the earlier Narodnik movement, where members of the Russian middle class "went to the people" -- which sounds pretty similar to what would later be pretty central to Mao's ideas, especially the Cultural Revolution. FWIG, the Socialist Revolutionaries were also, in general, much more popular among the Russian peasants, and a lot less singleminded about industrialization than the Bolsheviks in general were (to say nothing of Stalin).
For those who know, is this about right? If so, would a Revolutionary Socialist victory lead to Russia taking longer to emerge as a superpower? Are there other potential overlaps between Narodnichestvo and Maoism?