Poll: Political results of a CP victory

What are the most likely political results of a CP victory?

  • Germany - left totalitarian

    Votes: 4 7.3%
  • Germany - right totalitarian

    Votes: 20 36.4%
  • UK - left totalitarian

    Votes: 8 14.5%
  • UK - right totalitarian

    Votes: 15 27.3%
  • France - left totalitarian

    Votes: 19 34.5%
  • France - right totalitarian

    Votes: 19 34.5%
  • Russia - left totalitarian

    Votes: 29 52.7%
  • Russia - right totalitarian

    Votes: 18 32.7%
  • Italy - left totalitarian

    Votes: 7 12.7%
  • Italy - right totalitarian

    Votes: 25 45.5%
  • Japan - left totalitarian

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • Japan - right totalitarian

    Votes: 27 49.1%
  • USA - left totalitarian

    Votes: 4 7.3%
  • USA - right totalitarian

    Votes: 12 21.8%
  • Austro-Hungarian Empire - right totalitarian

    Votes: 8 14.5%
  • Austro-Hungarian Empire - left totalitarian

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Austro-Hungarian Empire - dissolution

    Votes: 28 50.9%
  • Ottoman Empire - right totalitarian

    Votes: 15 27.3%
  • Ottoman Empire - left totalitarian

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ottoman Empire - dissolution

    Votes: 18 32.7%

  • Total voters
    55
Realistically, I'm not going to enforce a definition. Use your own. The use of the word was deliberate, so it shouldn't merely be democratic socialist or conservative authoritarian. I would suggest that totalitarianism should mean an ideological state with a blurring of party, state and masses. I would also suggest such things would be relative to the timeline if a similar concept to totalitarianism even exists. For example, if syndicalisms of the various varieties were the only ideologies to transform states in such a timeline.


In that case I can't tick any of the boxes with any confidence, though Russia (or part of it if it is dismembered) could be totalitarian as OTL, probably left but conceivably right depending how things go in its civil war.
 
In reality it was the United States, and specifically President Wilson that advocated all the nation-state crap that happened after WWI, the European powers would'nt give a damn about that kind of thing, and given the Ottomans were, even without the Hedjaz and Souther Iraq, sitting on a significant amount of Oil, were Industrializing and returning to a new Constitutional Era (the OE had been reforming politically most of the 19th century), their's nothing anyone could really do about it, or probably really would want to anyhow.


Actually, Lloyd George and others were talking along similar lines even before America entered the war.

Linguistic nationalism was an idea which had been in the air for most of a century. Even the Germans used it when they could to justify boundary changes they imposed or sought. Of course on both sides it only applied where they benefited from it. Wherever an enemy power would gain, it would always turn out that some other consideration - strategic, economic or whatever - just happened to take precedence in that particular case.
 
what if they manage to win 1922? isnt that a shock big enough to break the empire?

Just because the US doesn't enter they're going to fight 4 more years? I really can't see that happening; none of the countries involved can support a war on this scale for much longer.
 
There has should been opinion stays democracy.

Yeah -- at the very least for those countries that didn't become totalitarian OTL...

EDIT ADD: Sorry, didn't see this; though I'd still prefer the option, then, for those that didn't become democratic OTL (less hassle for those of us who think Totalitarianism in general would do less well than OTL)...
Note I said major changes. If it stays a democracy, it's not a change. A totalitarian regime or dissolution is obviously a major change. I'm not suggesting all would go one way or the other, just select the ones you think would change.

Of course there are more options than offered. Also appreciate the fact that there are a maximum of twenty options. If you want to detail another option put it in a post.
 
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