My bet is civil war between the Black Hundreds (slightly less incompetent than OTL Whites, thanks to a bit more time to recover from war, and more time to build up non-government institutions?) and the Soviets, with the Monarchies of Europe providing effective aid to the Black Hundreds after Hungary collapses.
Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers? (1.0)
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Problem here being that anastasia is advocating for a Romanov Restoration. If the Black Hundreds were in charge, theyd find some reactionary relative to be Tzar.
A civil war might still happen, though I think it's probably going to end just as badly for the Black Hundreds.
But who's to say that what comes next won't be worse or at least just as bad?
Or that the Bolsheviks are the successors to that state...
Could also be Russian proto-fascists who are opposed to the monarchy?
I meant the first French Revolution.First or second?
But maybe that someone is slightly far enough removed to be called a different dynasty...
Sure initially they probably go for a Romanov, but if that Romanov dies while the real commander has some distant link to the throne, might that someone simply assume effective power and just get crowned after the war is over - hence the Romanov Restoration movement being kind of like a Bourbon restoration movement in 1840's France.
I knew, I was joking.
Of course! Don't know how I forgot that one-- will fix later.
Now that is an interesting possibility indeed...But maybe that someone is slightly far enough removed to be called a different dynasty...
Sure initially they probably go for a Romanov, but if that Romanov dies while the real commander has some distant link to the throne, might that someone simply assume effective power and just get crowned after the war is over - hence the Romanov Restoration movement being kind of like a Bourbon restoration movement in 1840's France.
When your opponent is the Tsarist regime, and you're as good a speaker as Lenin...
If there's no viable reactionary to hand, they could, as been pointed out, end up being proto-fascist, taking the monarchy out of Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality and just going straight dictatorship.
With our update scheduled for Sunday, I repeat my earlier question: what d'you think will go wrong in Russia next?
I'm putting my money on Lvov deciding to reenact Bloody Sunday.
How is Italy doing in the post-war era? I would assume that while Cardona is still a hated man, the country is jubilant at their gains
Almost certainly so; the only piece of irredentist territory left is Tirol, but I suspect only the die-hard Italian nationalists care. Most would probably wave it off considering the German majority there, especially when the Italians have Trentino, Trieste, and Albania, turning the Adriatic into an Italian lake. They also have Nice, Savoy, and Corsica, and occupy more French territory up to the Rhone. With Malta and Tunisia, the Straits of Sicily are fully under Italian control. They also have an expanded East African Empire, between Eritrea and all of Somalia. Libya has also made modest gains.
Yes, Italy certainly has taken her own place in the Sun.
I could see a form of neo-Roman symbolism being used greatly in Italy, as well as the resources of their new colonial empire being used to really build up their army and navy