CaliGuy
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In our TL, the Bolsheviks promoted minority languages and cultures during their rule of Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union . This is evidenced by things such as the creation of separate SSRs and autonomous regions for the various ethnic groups of the Soviet Union.
Anyway, let's have both Lenin and Trotsky get killed in separate accidents sometime before 1917--thus completely butterflying away the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (as well as the subsequent Russian withdrawal from WWI--since none of the non-Bolshevik forces in Russia were willing toa gree to Brest-Litovsk). Now, let's say that the government which will emerge in Russia in this TL in either the 1920s or 1930s will aggressively promote Russification and will also last for decades (think of what the French did with the Ferry Laws in our TL--when they largely successfully got rid of various minority languages in France).
In this TL, how successful would Russification be in various parts of the former Russian Empire?
Any thoughts on this?
Anyway, let's have both Lenin and Trotsky get killed in separate accidents sometime before 1917--thus completely butterflying away the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (as well as the subsequent Russian withdrawal from WWI--since none of the non-Bolshevik forces in Russia were willing toa gree to Brest-Litovsk). Now, let's say that the government which will emerge in Russia in this TL in either the 1920s or 1930s will aggressively promote Russification and will also last for decades (think of what the French did with the Ferry Laws in our TL--when they largely successfully got rid of various minority languages in France).
In this TL, how successful would Russification be in various parts of the former Russian Empire?
Any thoughts on this?