Konigsberg will also need a re-naming. No commie wants to live in "King's City"!
Rosa's Reich - Red Germany
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Clearly it must be given a proper name, like Marxberg, or Volksberg.
I don't think this would cause the Whites to win the Civil War, if anything they'd be weaker since they'll have less foreign support. The German reactionaries are too busy trying to save themselves, and since Germany is a greater loss for international capital than Russia, the French/British will send help that they'd have otherwise have sent to Russia to Germany. Also OTL in those countries there was resistance to attempts to help the Whites (eg British dockworkers going on strike to prevent weapons shipments to Russia), ITTL those would only be greater.
Great update, I've nominated this timeline for a Turtledove.
Edit:- Can someone second the nomination please
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Redshank Galloglass
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Seems that the masses are carrying out the revolution while the party struggles to keep up. It will be interesting to see how this continues on...
Radek is a loose cannon and the proto-Nazbols are getting way too uppity. Not good.
I do find it funny that the anarchist and the (OTL)Bolshevik are on the same side in this dispute.
Welp, the Bolsheviks and the NazBol Gang has gone up and made their move. The Revolution is carrying forth, so Rosa better keep up lest it spirals out of control.
I do not think that they are National Bolsheviks (in the modern sense), just a kind of Social Democrats - Like the Menshevik-Defensists and Simon Petlyura
@GlobalHumanism What's Gramsci and his Ordine Nuovo group up to in Turin as all this craziness is going down there?
Chapter V (1919) | Part IV (Trotsky on the March)
Chapter V: The Grand Coalition
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Time Period: September 10th - September 16th, 1919
Soviet Russia
With 80,000 troops under his direct command, and with Lenin’s express demand to smash into the reactionary army of Poland’s Josef Pilsudski, on September 11th, Leon Trotsky ordered his army to march from their encamped positions several miles west of Smolensk. However in the months prior to this action, the political regime in Soviet Russia had been left reeling from a series of internal dissentions from revolutionaries within and outside of the Bolshevik party. Emboldened by the meteoric success of the Luxemburgist revolution beginning in January of that year, Eva Broido, secretary of the Menshevik Central Committee began a series of public protests to economic and political programs implemented by Lenin’s Bolshevik central committee. Focusing her ire upon the crash implementation of war communism along with its autocratic organization of planning power, she along with rest of the Menshevik leadership railed against Lenin in several addresses to the Moscow Congress of Soviets, using Rosa’s Councilization Programme as an example of a better form of revolutionary governance. This dissention simultaneously coincided with a mass munity of Red Army soldiers in the Ukraine in the spring. Spurred on by the anarchist ideology of Nestor Makhno, 40,000 soliders deposed their Russian commanders and pledged loyal to the Makhnovshchyna; known widely as the Black Army.
By September, several major and many small libertarian communes had formed throughout revolutionary Ukraine. These domestic and foreign radical-leftist challenges to his regime, coupled with his ultimate intention to establish a unified Bolshevik revolution to sweep across Europe, Lenin was forced to acquiesce to some of their demands. Thus, under the promise of making changes to some of the highly centralized policies of War Communism, he, in an address to the Congress in July 1919, placated to the Mensheviks, promising to reduce some of the heaviest economic requisition quotas levied upon the peasantry. In addition, upon his decision to pool his forces away from the Ukrainian theatre in preparation for the Smolensk advance, he likewise made overtures of peace with Makhno, going so far as to send Commissar of Foreign Affairs Georgy Chicherin to negotiate terms of recognition between both of their revolutionary factions in August 1919. Though an alliance could not be negotiated, Lenin’s promise of recognition of the Black Army and its jurisdiction over the communes it controlled and successfully defended from Denkin’s White Army forces was accepted. In return, Makhno agreed to start a major guerilla campaign against all feasible White Army forces west of Kiev with the goal delaying any potential advance against Moscow.
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Luxemburgist Germany
As the Trotsky’s advance began, Ernst Toller of the Bavarian Soviet Republic desperately tried to deal with the Strasserist coup that occurred on their doorstep. Much to the disappointment of Eisner and the outgoing USPD clique, the socialist government that assumed power after deposition of the Wittlesbach monarchy and its SPD successor had to deal always with the ever present threat of rightist sympathizers among the populace. To an extent, this reality had been mitigated by the moderating nature of the aged Eisner as many saw him as operating above the fray of the most extremist ideologies.
However, with his decision to back the Luxemburgist coup in Berlin in January, coupled with the creation and cultivation of the alliance between Bavaria and the Union of Council Republics, those that were once in the middle slowly radicalized towards the reactionary camp. This fact was further exacerbated by Toller’s leftist coup. Thus when Strassor’s call for a nationalist socialist revolution had echoed throughout the province Thuringia, many in Munich felt obliged to join.
Seizing upon this moment, on the night of September 12th, with the Bavarian government still in disarray, an underground group known as the Thule Society launched a solider backed uprising in Nuremberg. Led by a leadership clique of Anton Drexler and several former imperial officers, armed men occupied several municipal buildings and detained all the local USPD municipal officers. On September 13th, Anton Drexler publically declared the Munich government of Toller to be an enemy of the Bavarian people and asked for those that sought to join his revolution to follow him and rise up against the communist regime. Between September 14th – 16th, Drexler’s uprising spread to Ingolstadt and Augsburg with mass munities occurring among soldiers that had previously agreed to defend the Eisner government. Fearing the imminent collapse of the state, Toller sent an urgent request to Rosa and the Grand Coalition leadership asking for assistance.
“If Bavaria falls, we risk the collapse of council republics in Wurttemberg and Bamberg; we urgently need the Red Army to help us beat back this insurrection!”
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Time Period: September 10th - September 16th, 1919
Soviet Russia
With 80,000 troops under his direct command, and with Lenin’s express demand to smash into the reactionary army of Poland’s Josef Pilsudski, on September 11th, Leon Trotsky ordered his army to march from their encamped positions several miles west of Smolensk. However in the months prior to this action, the political regime in Soviet Russia had been left reeling from a series of internal dissentions from revolutionaries within and outside of the Bolshevik party. Emboldened by the meteoric success of the Luxemburgist revolution beginning in January of that year, Eva Broido, secretary of the Menshevik Central Committee began a series of public protests to economic and political programs implemented by Lenin’s Bolshevik central committee. Focusing her ire upon the crash implementation of war communism along with its autocratic organization of planning power, she along with rest of the Menshevik leadership railed against Lenin in several addresses to the Moscow Congress of Soviets, using Rosa’s Councilization Programme as an example of a better form of revolutionary governance. This dissention simultaneously coincided with a mass munity of Red Army soldiers in the Ukraine in the spring. Spurred on by the anarchist ideology of Nestor Makhno, 40,000 soliders deposed their Russian commanders and pledged loyal to the Makhnovshchyna; known widely as the Black Army.
By September, several major and many small libertarian communes had formed throughout revolutionary Ukraine. These domestic and foreign radical-leftist challenges to his regime, coupled with his ultimate intention to establish a unified Bolshevik revolution to sweep across Europe, Lenin was forced to acquiesce to some of their demands. Thus, under the promise of making changes to some of the highly centralized policies of War Communism, he, in an address to the Congress in July 1919, placated to the Mensheviks, promising to reduce some of the heaviest economic requisition quotas levied upon the peasantry. In addition, upon his decision to pool his forces away from the Ukrainian theatre in preparation for the Smolensk advance, he likewise made overtures of peace with Makhno, going so far as to send Commissar of Foreign Affairs Georgy Chicherin to negotiate terms of recognition between both of their revolutionary factions in August 1919. Though an alliance could not be negotiated, Lenin’s promise of recognition of the Black Army and its jurisdiction over the communes it controlled and successfully defended from Denkin’s White Army forces was accepted. In return, Makhno agreed to start a major guerilla campaign against all feasible White Army forces west of Kiev with the goal delaying any potential advance against Moscow.
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Luxemburgist Germany
As the Trotsky’s advance began, Ernst Toller of the Bavarian Soviet Republic desperately tried to deal with the Strasserist coup that occurred on their doorstep. Much to the disappointment of Eisner and the outgoing USPD clique, the socialist government that assumed power after deposition of the Wittlesbach monarchy and its SPD successor had to deal always with the ever present threat of rightist sympathizers among the populace. To an extent, this reality had been mitigated by the moderating nature of the aged Eisner as many saw him as operating above the fray of the most extremist ideologies.
However, with his decision to back the Luxemburgist coup in Berlin in January, coupled with the creation and cultivation of the alliance between Bavaria and the Union of Council Republics, those that were once in the middle slowly radicalized towards the reactionary camp. This fact was further exacerbated by Toller’s leftist coup. Thus when Strassor’s call for a nationalist socialist revolution had echoed throughout the province Thuringia, many in Munich felt obliged to join.
Seizing upon this moment, on the night of September 12th, with the Bavarian government still in disarray, an underground group known as the Thule Society launched a solider backed uprising in Nuremberg. Led by a leadership clique of Anton Drexler and several former imperial officers, armed men occupied several municipal buildings and detained all the local USPD municipal officers. On September 13th, Anton Drexler publically declared the Munich government of Toller to be an enemy of the Bavarian people and asked for those that sought to join his revolution to follow him and rise up against the communist regime. Between September 14th – 16th, Drexler’s uprising spread to Ingolstadt and Augsburg with mass munities occurring among soldiers that had previously agreed to defend the Eisner government. Fearing the imminent collapse of the state, Toller sent an urgent request to Rosa and the Grand Coalition leadership asking for assistance.
“If Bavaria falls, we risk the collapse of council republics in Wurttemberg and Bamberg; we urgently need the Red Army to help us beat back this insurrection!”
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Armed, and working from within the ranks of the striking workers. His ATL political trajectory since the Berlin Revolutionary will be covered in the next update
Well snap. This is quite suboptimal. The Russians and Ukranians aren't going to be able to go west on short notice however. At least the Mensheviks are gaining influence.