USSR 1905

The 1905 Revolution was not a Communist revolution. It was a popular movement simply to have a constitution. The organization of the Bolsheviks was not what it needed to be in order for them to seize power like they did in October 1917. The closest we could get, IMO, is a constitution guaranteeing a more liberal Duma (not one where more than half the members were appointed by the Tsar) where the Bolsheviks manage to gain a large amount of seats and then, by parliamentary process, managed to dethrone the Tsar. But this would probably have a Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic later than 1917, probably not before. (Remember, the USSR wasn't incorporated until 1921 IOTL)
 
Well wouldn't a more successful 1905 Revolution be major boon for the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries over the Bolsheviks as the factor of war that set the Bolsheviks apart and gernered them much of their popularity would be absent. If the Tsar is forced to give true constitutional power to a Duma, and one dominated by elected offiicals at that, then the SRs would be the biggest winners without a doubt.
 
That's true. The Bolsheviks, even after they took control, barely gained 10% of the seats in the Duma (hence why Lenin dissolved it). The Bolsheviks were wildly unpopular. A successful 1905 revolution would either a) butterfly away the USSR, or force the 1917 revolution anyway. It would all depend on how the leader of the Duma was able to work with the Tsar and the army to maintain stability of the country.
 
My guess is if the Revolution of 1905 had been a success then there is no Bolshevik Revolution in 1918 and no Communist Soviet Union.

In TTL The Russian People have what they want, a constitution, guaranteed rights, some form of self government.

The result I think is a Duma that starts out looking much more like The British Parliment, and a constitutional monarchy that looks not unlike Great Brittain.

By the way, I have always thought Nicholas II would have made an outstanding constitutional monarch, especially if Russia had already been a constitutional monarchy before Nicholas II came to the throne.
 
Revolution 1905

As others have pointed out any 1905 revolution would be unlikely to have been Bolshevik Led possibly the Trudoviks would have been part of a government and Kerensky would have been prime minister before long. The Russo-Japanese war was over by October so there would have been no anti war movement that put the Bolsheviks into power. The soviets would have beebn incoroporated into the system and Trotksky wouldn't have been tried but would be working for reform from within. Maybe a reformist government would have resisted the drift to war although the intransigent aqttitude of Austria towards Serbia may have forced its hand
 
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