brooklyn99
Banned
As others have pointed out. Crash industrialization as Stalin had enacted is a recipe for critical instability. So one thing beforehand, Nicholas would need to ramp up Tsarist authoritarianism to similair levels as the Soviet Union. OTL Okrahana and Katorga camps, as instruments of oppression, were almost nothing compared to the Cheka/NKVD or the Gulag in terms of it's victims and reach.