The Union Reborn - The story of a new Soviet Union

Effect of successful reforms of the Communist movement as a whole? Possible rehabilitation of Trotsky? Possibility of reconciling the 3rd and 4th Internationals?
 
Maybe we could have a less crazy bunch of people than the Taliban seize power in Afghanistan?

Some timelines detail how Afghanistan could have been divided into two: the reformists and the radicals. For me, this is only until such time that reformists finally regain the entire country. Here, Afghanistan has a better fate.

For the United States, I am interested to see Gephardt losing in 1992 to Bush. Afterwards, Clinton wins in a landslide in 1996 after the economy of the world complete collapses by 1996*. Meaning, Democrats retain control of Congress past 1994.

*Yes. This could have happened. IIRC, if you changed things enough for Japan, you could have its bubble that burst in 1990-92 burst later, leading to an even larger Asian Financial Crisis.

The effects of this could hurt the USSR, too, which is just recovering from the 1989-92 recession. This could crush the Communists. And would they still be named "Communist" after 1991?

In the Philippines, you can have Miriam Defensor Santiago win over Fidel Ramos. It was somewhat close IOTL, meaning everything can be butterflied so that can happen. Look up Santiago's name, and you will see that she is far more intellectual than her contemporaries.
 
Some timelines detail how Afghanistan could have been divided into two: the reformists and the radicals. For me, this is only until such time that reformists finally regain the entire country. Here, Afghanistan has a better fate.

For the United States, I am interested to see Gephardt losing in 1992 to Bush. Afterwards, Clinton wins in a landslide in 1996 after the economy of the world complete collapses by 1996*. Meaning, Democrats retain control of Congress past 1994.

*Yes. This could have happened. IIRC, if you changed things enough for Japan, you could have its bubble that burst in 1990-92 burst later, leading to an even larger Asian Financial Crisis.

The effects of this could hurt the USSR, too, which is just recovering from the 1989-92 recession. This could crush the Communists. And would they still be named "Communist" after 1991?

In the Philippines, you can have Miriam Defensor Santiago win over Fidel Ramos. It was somewhat close IOTL, meaning everything can be butterflied so that can happen. Look up Santiago's name, and you will see that she is far more intellectual than her contemporaries.

1. I've yet to fully decide on the fate of Afghanistan TTL, though the Soviets have a larger interest than OTL due to still having most of Central Asia.

2. Gephardt will lose to Bush in 1992 and Perot will have a much stronger performance (he will win a number of states). Paul Tsongas will be considered by many to be the heir apparent for the Democrats in 1996. There are two possibilities for the candidates in the presidential election (Vice President Kemp will be the Republican nominee). The Democrats will win either way and the same man will be president by 1998, but I haven't 100% decided. Whatever way, Tsongas will play an important role in the Democrats as the DLC is discredited.

3. I'll do some more research on the financial crisis and its would-be effects on Bush's second term.

4. It certainly wouldn't be the only close election I'll shift the other way TTL (three referenda in the 1990s will go the opposite way to OTL). It would be interesting to see the effects on the Philippines if she won.
 
I think the successful recovery and economic boom in the USSR (in its initial borders) past 1985-1986 would be rather outlandish, because by that point, the Soviet state was becoming increasingly incompetent, and the state planned economy began to crumble, seriously reducing the chances of such a turn of events. 1989-1990 would be pure ASB: at that point in our timeline, Moscow and Leningrad had food shortages, the Baltic republics broke away, others openly defied the central government, and Armenian SSR was at war with Azeri SSR. In my opinion, the USSR was pretty much doomed at that point.

Establishing a PoD in the 1970s would require breaking up the grip of the Soviet gerontocracy on power. Alternatively, one can imagine that the Kosygin reforms of 1965 were more successful than in OTL. For even more improbable scenarios, one can go further back, into the 1950s: unsourced and likely false claims floating around the Russian internet claim that a certain Lavrentiy Beria proposed expanding the role of worker cooperatives in Soviet economy (artels, workshops and the like - the last remnants of NEP, quashed by Khrushchev in 1956-1960). But what if it was true?
 
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