MarshalBraginsky
Banned
Prologue:
No one would have anticipated an anarchist revolution at all. Indeed, at first anarchy was synonymous with a chaotic break down in law and order, but that was the general view before the first series of Russian Revolutions occured. It all started in 1906 when General Helmuth von Moltke the younger had studied the Schlieffen Plan and decided that while the original Plan was feasible in terms of knowing that France can be defeated before Russian mobilization is completed, he also knew that the Russian reserves were unnaturally large, and no one knows how fast can they mobilize. So in a decision that would ultimately change the plans of a future war, Moltke devised his own plans instead, with the top priority on defeating Russia first before France has a chance to attack Germany. Moltke's reasons were that the Russian juggernaut was even more menacing than the French. It would also help Austria-Hungary a bit by relieving their pressure while allowing the Habsburgs to invade Serbia.
World War One comes around and the German High Command launches the Moltke Plan instead of the Schlieffen Plan. To make sure that the Russian collapse would be even bigger, the Germans incited an uprising in Poland and the Baltics, where the Russian Army used some of its troops to put down the uprising. However, the German Army successfully diverted the Russian Army's attention from its invasion of Russian Ukraine. By the time the Russians have realized what's going on, most of the Ukraine, the Baltics and Belorussia have already broken away from the Russian Empire. The Germans then push onwards into St. Petersburg from liberated Estonia and laid siege there on September of 1914. They also laid siege to Moscow in an attempt to bring the Russian Empire to its knees. Overall, the Germans managed to establish Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as its client states, as well as Belorussia, Ukraine and Poland. However, the sheer, humiliating defeat Russia sustained at the hands of the Germans within two years would ultimately turn into a thirst for revolution. It would start in 1915.
At the Western Front, the German Army took advantage of Russia's sudden collapse and began to invade Belgium and France on January 14th, 1915, a few months after the Germans have started to lay siege to Moscow. The Moltke Plan for the Western Front involved the German forces encircling the French Army and reachng Paris. The speed of the offensive would be based on how the Russians would recover from their collapse. When the Germans encouraged the Poles living under the Russian Empire to launch an uprising, it didn't take any general to realize that inciting the Poles was a bad idea. Not only did the Polish Uprising had paralyzed the Russian front, but it also backfired as Poles within the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire called for the unification of all Polish-speaking peoples. At least the Russians would be occupied with the rebellions in Poland, the Baltics, the Ukraine and Belorussia, but the Germans would now have additional soldiers to throw in against France.
In the Russian homefront, the two competing socialist factions, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks are fiercely deadlocked in a fight to decide the fate of a post-Tsarist Russian state. The Tsarist armies were also deployed around the rebellious states in order to pacify it, and at the same time, drive out the remnant German forces out of Russia and restore order. The problem though, was that once the Baltics, Russian Poland, Belorussia and the Ukraine had intended to stick to their goals of independence, there was nothing the Russians can do. So in a resigned compromise, Tsar Nicholas II agreed to recognize the independence of the Baltic states and Poland, but fell short of recognizing the independence of its fraternal East Slavic states of Belorussia and Ukraine.
(Keep in mind that the Russian Revolution of this TL would start earlier because the Central Powers had defeated Russia first before turning towards France. Their 1914 invasion of Russia would be explained in this chapter after giving the first introduction. Also, since they attacked Russia first, the invasion of Belgium and France does not occur and Britain sits this one out.)
No one would have anticipated an anarchist revolution at all. Indeed, at first anarchy was synonymous with a chaotic break down in law and order, but that was the general view before the first series of Russian Revolutions occured. It all started in 1906 when General Helmuth von Moltke the younger had studied the Schlieffen Plan and decided that while the original Plan was feasible in terms of knowing that France can be defeated before Russian mobilization is completed, he also knew that the Russian reserves were unnaturally large, and no one knows how fast can they mobilize. So in a decision that would ultimately change the plans of a future war, Moltke devised his own plans instead, with the top priority on defeating Russia first before France has a chance to attack Germany. Moltke's reasons were that the Russian juggernaut was even more menacing than the French. It would also help Austria-Hungary a bit by relieving their pressure while allowing the Habsburgs to invade Serbia.
World War One comes around and the German High Command launches the Moltke Plan instead of the Schlieffen Plan. To make sure that the Russian collapse would be even bigger, the Germans incited an uprising in Poland and the Baltics, where the Russian Army used some of its troops to put down the uprising. However, the German Army successfully diverted the Russian Army's attention from its invasion of Russian Ukraine. By the time the Russians have realized what's going on, most of the Ukraine, the Baltics and Belorussia have already broken away from the Russian Empire. The Germans then push onwards into St. Petersburg from liberated Estonia and laid siege there on September of 1914. They also laid siege to Moscow in an attempt to bring the Russian Empire to its knees. Overall, the Germans managed to establish Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as its client states, as well as Belorussia, Ukraine and Poland. However, the sheer, humiliating defeat Russia sustained at the hands of the Germans within two years would ultimately turn into a thirst for revolution. It would start in 1915.
At the Western Front, the German Army took advantage of Russia's sudden collapse and began to invade Belgium and France on January 14th, 1915, a few months after the Germans have started to lay siege to Moscow. The Moltke Plan for the Western Front involved the German forces encircling the French Army and reachng Paris. The speed of the offensive would be based on how the Russians would recover from their collapse. When the Germans encouraged the Poles living under the Russian Empire to launch an uprising, it didn't take any general to realize that inciting the Poles was a bad idea. Not only did the Polish Uprising had paralyzed the Russian front, but it also backfired as Poles within the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire called for the unification of all Polish-speaking peoples. At least the Russians would be occupied with the rebellions in Poland, the Baltics, the Ukraine and Belorussia, but the Germans would now have additional soldiers to throw in against France.
In the Russian homefront, the two competing socialist factions, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks are fiercely deadlocked in a fight to decide the fate of a post-Tsarist Russian state. The Tsarist armies were also deployed around the rebellious states in order to pacify it, and at the same time, drive out the remnant German forces out of Russia and restore order. The problem though, was that once the Baltics, Russian Poland, Belorussia and the Ukraine had intended to stick to their goals of independence, there was nothing the Russians can do. So in a resigned compromise, Tsar Nicholas II agreed to recognize the independence of the Baltic states and Poland, but fell short of recognizing the independence of its fraternal East Slavic states of Belorussia and Ukraine.
(Keep in mind that the Russian Revolution of this TL would start earlier because the Central Powers had defeated Russia first before turning towards France. Their 1914 invasion of Russia would be explained in this chapter after giving the first introduction. Also, since they attacked Russia first, the invasion of Belgium and France does not occur and Britain sits this one out.)
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