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What if the Russian Revolution of 1905 had succeeded and toppling the monarchy? Would there have been a WW1 or a Communist Revolution?
Assuming a democratic government and bearing in mind that Russia was the fastest growing economy in Europe then I doubt there would have been a communist government. Whether the Great War could have been avoided as a consequence I doubt.
I meant whether the Communist Revolution in 1917 could have been avoided without the monarchy.
If you have a successful 1905 revolution and that government gets involved in the Great War it won't have that illusion to fall back on
If the post-revolutionary government gets caught up in the Great War then something like 1917 is very likely. One of the factors in the monarchy's downfall was the bursting of the illusion that the Tsar was above it all. In pre-revolutionary Russia part of what kept the Tsars on top in spite of the massive abuses of the political system was the image that the Tsars were simply unaware of the actions of their underlings.