The Butterflies of stopping the Bolsheviks

kernals12

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia. I thought it'd be appropriate to list the travesties that resulted from this and think about how much better we'd all be if it had been stopped.

Horrendous Dictators:
Stalin
Mao
Pol Pot
The Kims
Castro
and many more

Cold War:
Wasteful Arms Race
Risk of Nuclear War
Vietnam
Korea
Afghanistan
Nicaragua
Guatemala

Communism:
Starvation
Stagnation
Deprivation of human rights
Misery

Fascism (result of the fear of communism):
Hitler
Mussolini
Holocaust
World War 2

If things had gone a little differently in Petrograd a century ago, we'd have gotten a very different 20th century.
 
Well, if we Can trust this pod to prevent the rise of Hitler. He hated a lot of things.
Guess the first question is how it is stopped?
 
I've just started a thread in post 1900 that's going to look at this. All readers welcome.
 

kernals12

Banned
Well, if we Can trust this pod to prevent the rise of Hitler. He hated a lot of things.
Guess the first question is how it is stopped?
I think there are 3 ways to stop it.
1) Kerensky doesn't replace Brusilov with the problematic Kornilov, that gets rid of the Kornilov affair which destroyed the military's loyalty to Kerensky and gave more power to the Bolsheviks
2) The provincial government more quickly convenes the constituent assembly so that Russia has a legitimate constitutional government before things spiral out of control
3) Get rid of Nicholas II before 1900. That gives us Tsar Michael II who seemed to be more open to reform and probably wouldn't have dragged Russia into war with Austria Hungary. I did this in my tl.
 
I think there are 3 ways to stop it.
1) Kerensky doesn't replace Brusilov with the problematic Kornilov, that gets rid of the Kornilov affair which destroyed the military's loyalty to Kerensky and gave more power to the Bolsheviks
2) The provincial government more quickly convenes the constituent assembly so that Russia has a legitimate constitutional government before things spiral out of control
3) Get rid of Nicholas II before 1900. That gives us Tsar Michael II who seemed to be more open to reform and probably wouldn't have dragged Russia into war with Austria Hungary. I did this in my tl.


Kerensky IMMEDIATELY pulls Russia out of
WWI. Staying in the war exacerbated all
of the many problems Russia had to deal
with in 1917 IOTL & created so much discontent that 100 years ago today the Bol-
sheviks, though a small minority, were
able to stage their coup without hardly
having to fire a shot. (Kerensky later admit-
ted staying in the war was a blunder; introduced years later IOTL to the famous
British newspaper publisher Lord Beaverbrook Kerensky was bluntly asked by
Beaverbrook: "Would you have mastered the
Bolsheviks if you had made a separate peace?" "Of course", replied Kerensky, "We
should be in Moscow now.")(Quoted in Edmond Taylor, THE FALL OF THE DYNASTIES, 1963, p. 295).
 
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