im reworking my ATL and the map that goes with it. at the moment, ive gotten to russia, which ive already decided has the following divergences from OTL:
- no WW1 means that discontent over Nick II's marriage to Alix of Hesse due to war with Germany is nonexistent
- Alex III doesn't die when he does IOTL, so Nick has a bit more time to prepare before becoming tsar
- more obvious transitions towards democracy and constitutionalism mean less discontent among the commoners
- as a result of the above, the Bolsheviks don't have as much support and there are more soldiers in Petrograd to fight them off, so the Romanovs survive; the Soviet Union never comes to be
- the transition to constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy is made as a result of the Great Depression