Born in the Baku Governorate, one of the guberniyas of the Russian Empire, Nikolai Alexander Kulev was a Russian orthodox man, a engineer that dreamed of a better future for his nation since it's descent after the war with Japan in 1905. As a young teen Nikolai worked in a factory, where he managed to become engineer for the machines and had soon archived a important role with a few workers under his command. All that changed with the beginning of the Great War in 1914. While Nikolai was unsatisfied with the monarchy like many in the working class, but he was still a patriot. As his motherland called in 1914 he joined the army to fight for his nation. As the Ottoman Empire opened a new front in the Caucasus in November 1914 he fought near his homeland against the Ottomans and became an Officer. In the Bergmann Offensive he was taken prisoner of war near Kopri-Keni and taken to a prison camp right outside of Erzingian. There he learned Arabic from some Arabian Muslim prisoner of war (Arabian rebels) and became interested in the Quran and mostly the story of Mohamed. Nikolai, not coming from a poor family was educated enough to read, but his father lost most of his money and property as he was younger. Interested in great historical figures and quiet religious Nikolai was eager to learn more from his fellow inmates about their own faith and culture, while telling them more about his. He also joined other revolutionary soldiers at the prison camp, dreaming of a better future for all of Russia.

As the Russian Revolution occurred and Nikolai heard of it he was overwhelmed with joy and hope that the autocracy of the Tsar would be finally ended. With the Russian Empire collapsing, Nicholas II. abdicated and his regime was replaced with the provisional government. Like so many other Nikolai hoped for change, but with the second revolution in October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a communist state. All this began, when the February Revolution (March 1917) around Petrograd, the capital of Russia began. In the chaos, members of the Imperial parliament (the Duma) assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Gouvernment. The army leadership felt they did not have the means to suppress the revolution, resulting in Nicholas's abdication. The Soviets (workers' councils), which were led by more radical socialist factions, initially permitted the Provisional Government to rule, but insisted on a prerogative to influence the government and control various militias. The February Revolution took place in the context of heavy military setbacks during the Great War (1914–18), which left much of the Russian Army in a state of mutiny.

In a period of dual power, the Provisional Government held state power while the national network of Soviets, led by socialists, had the allegiance of the lower classes and the political left. During this chaotic period there were frequent mutinies, protests and many strikes. When the Provisional Government chose to continue fighting the war with Germany, the Bolsheviks and other socialist factions campaigned for stopping the conflict. The Bolsheviks turned workers militias under their control into the Red Guards (later the Red Army) over which they exerted substantial control. In the October Revolution (November in the Gregorian calendar), the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers' Soviets overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd and established the Russian SFSR, eventually shifting the capital to Moscow in 1918. The Bolsheviks appointed themselves as leaders of various government ministries and seized control of the countryside, establishing the Cheka to quash dissent. To end Russia’s participation in the First World War, the Bolshevik leaders signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918. Nikolai was freed after the treaty and send home, like many other prisoners of war. Despite this he was very unhappy with the Red leadership, as they had given the enemy Russian territory and land. It was then that the Bolsheviks (Reds) fought the Whites (counter-revolutionaries), independence movements and non-Bolshevik socialists.

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Nikolai Alexander Kulev saw how the Soviets and Bolshevik turned his dream into a nightmare and joined the White movement, a military arm of the White Army, better known as the White Guard, or Whites. They were a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forced, that fought the Bolsheviks/Soviets (better known as the Reds) in the Russian Civil War (1917 – 1921/22). The Whites were united by three main connotations; first the political contra-distrinction against the Reds, including their Red Army and the Bolsheviks government, second a historical reference to absolute monarchy, the white uniforms of Imperial Russia worn by some of the White Army soldiers. Nikolai was sure that the White movement could stop the Red Army and aimed to bring about law and order and the salvation of Russia, fighting against traitors, barbarians, and murderers. They worked to remove Soviet organizations and functionaries in White-controlled territory. Overall, the White Army was nationalistic, rejected ethnic particularism and separatism. The White Army generally believed in a united multinational Russia, and opposed separatists who wanted to create nation-states instead of the Tsarist Russian Empire. Many of the White leaders were conservative, accepting autocracy while remaining suspicious of "politics" (which they characterized as consisting of speeches, elections, and party activities). Aside from being anti-Bolshevik and patriotic, the Whites had yet no set ideology or main leader. The White Armies did acknowledge a single provisional head of state, the so-called Supreme Governor of Russia, but this post was prominent only under the leadership (1918-1920) of Admiral Alexander Kolchak. The movement had no set plan for foreign policy; Whites differed on policies toward Germany, debating whether or not to ally with it. The Whites wanted to keep from alienating any potential supporters and allies, and thus saw an exclusively monarchist position as a detriment to their cause and recruitment. Nikolai himself was not so sure about that and realized that maybe help from outside was needed, if they wished to defeat the Reds.

Just like other White-movement leaders such as Anton Denikin, Nikolai advocated for Russians to create their own government, claiming the military could not decide in Russians' steads. Admiral Alexander Kolchak succeeded in creating a temporary wartime government in Omsk, acknowledged by most other White leaders, only for it to fall with the loss of his armies. Nikolai realized that the Reds would win the civil war, because they were united under Lenin and the White movement had warlords, just like Grigory Semyonov and Roman Ungern von Sternberg, who did not acknowledge any authority but their own. Consequently, the White movement had no set political leanings: members could be monarchists, republicans,rightists, Kadets or anything other. Among White Army leaders, neither General Lavr Kornilov nor General Anton Denikin were monarchists, yet General Pytor Nikolayevich Wrangel was a monarchist willing to soldier for a republican Russian government. Moreover, other political parties supported the anti-Bolshevik White Army, among them the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, and others who opposed Lenin's Bolshevik October Revolution of 1917. But depending on the time and place, those White Army supporters might also exchange right-wing allegiance for allegiance to the Red Army.
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Nikolai saw no other option, but to gather with some other Whites who had similar ideas like him and they wrote the book “a peace without peace” to oppose the territorial losses of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, while supporting some of the major separatist or autonomous movements among the Whites. They gathered their enemies in Lugansk and allied themselves with the Germans to get supplies (mainly weapons and some helping troops). Then they blew up the meeting of their White opposition with a bomb and seized control of the Volunteer Army in South Russia. This army soon became the most prominent and the largest of the various and disparate White forces and thanks to the deal with the Germans, even the best equipped. Starting off as a small and well-organized military in January 1918, the Volunteer Army soon grew. The Kuban Cossaks joined the White Army, and conscription of both peasants and Cossacks began. In late February 1918, 4,000 soldiers under the command of General Aleksei Kaledin were forced to retreat from Rostov-on-Don due to the advance of the Red Army. In what became known as the Ice March, they traveled to Kuban in order to unite with the Kuban Cossacks (most of whom did not support the Volunteer Army.) In March, 3,000 men under the command of General Viktor Pokrovsky joined the Volunteer Army, increasing its membership to 6,000, and by June to 9,000. In 1919 the Don Cossacks joined and the Army began drafting Ukrainian peasants. In that year, between May and October, the Volunteer Army grew from 64,000 to 150,000 soldiers and was better supplied than its Red counterpart. The White Army's rank-and-file comprised active anti-Bolsheviks, such as Cossacks, nobles, and peasants, as conscripts and as volunteers. The White movement also had access to various naval forces, both sea-going and river-based, like the Black Sea Fleet. On January 23, 1919 the Volunteer Army under Denikin oversaw the defeat of the 11th Soviet Army and then captured the North Caucasus region. After capturing the Donbass, Tsaritsyn and Kharkov in June, Denikin's forces surrounded Moscow on July 3, 1919. Plans envisaged 40,000 fighters under the command of General Vladimir May-Mayevsk storming the city. The attack upon Moscow succeeded, the Armed Forces of the Soviets retreated to Petersburg. On March 26 and March 27, 1920 the remnants of the Soviet Army evacuated from Petersburg and from Astrakhan to the far east, were some of them continued fighting. The Whites had won the Russian Civil War, but some fighting against the Reds and some seperatists continued until 1921/22.
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(the World after the Treaty of Versailles)

The new Administration of the White movement's leaders and first members came mainly from the ranks of military officers, just like General Nikolai Alexander Kulev. Some even came from outside the nobility, such as generals Mikhail ALekseev and Anton Denikin or General Lavr Kornilov (a Cossack). The White generals never mastered administration; but they often utilized "prerevolutionary functionaries" or "military officers with monarchististic inclinations" for administering White-controlled regions during the Russian Civil War. Before the coup of Nikolai and his allies the White Armies were often lawless and disordered, after it they managed to surpass the Reds thanks to German advisers and other foreign help or participants, like the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Greece, the United States, France, Serbia, Romania, , Italy and even China. Also, White-controlled territories had multiple different and varying currencies with unstable exchange-rates. The chief currency, the Volunteer Army's ruble, had no gold backing. Because of that the new Government had to face many problems, even more than the pro-independence movements in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland had gained semi-independence in the war thanks to Germany, while the Whites remained in control of Russia, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Tuva, Mongolia, Ukraine, Belarus and Tuva. With the fall of Germany and the End of the Great War in 1918, the Whites under their new administration hoped to gain the support of some of the former territories of the Russian Empire, because just like the Germans they supported greater autonomy.

After the fall of the Russian Republic, a short lived state that controlled, de jure, the territory of the former Russian Empire after the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II on 2 March [15 March] 1917. Less than eight months later, the Republic was dissolved after the October Revolution on 25 October [7 November, N.S.] 1917 and the establishment of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) with their Provisional Government of Russia. After the victory of the Whites, they established a new government, the Russian Confederation. On the terms of great autonomy and self government, the Whites managed to unite the territories of Belarus, Central Asia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, South Caucasus, Tuva and the Ukraine. After the victory in the Russian Civil War the Whites and their Russian Confederation were recognized as the sole successor of the Russian Republic and the Russian Empire. The Entente also recognized the Russian Confederation as one of the participants of the Great War and they were part of the Allies when the Treaty of Versailles was signet. Because of the German help in the civil war, the Russian Confederation didn't demand any land or reparations from Germany, but gained Ottoman Armenia in the Treaty of Sevres.

The last Reds had left Russia and many found refugee in Belgrad, Berlin, Paris, Harbin, Istanbul or even Shanghai. There they established military and cultural networks that lasted through the Second World War and some communist activists even established a home base in the United States, where numerous refugees immigrated. Moreover, in the 1920s and the 1930s, the Soviet Movement established organisations outside of Russia, which were meant to depose the Soviet Government with guerrilla warfare, e.g. the All-Soviet Union, the Red Alliance, or the Bolsheviks Solitary, a far-left communist organization founded in 1930 by a group of young Red emigres in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Some red émigrés adopted pro-White sympathies and were termed "Confederate patriots". These people formed their own organizations and even a Russian cadet corps was established to prepare the next generation of Communists for the "october campaign"—a hopeful term denoting a renewed military campaign to reconquer Russia from the White Government. Some Reds later fought for the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War.

The goals of the White administration were to rebuild Russia from the ashes of the war, to modernist, reform and industrial the nation. The autonomic regions created by the former semi independent or independent states and nations were a important first step to pacify the former civil war regions and autonomy movements. In his wish to modernize his now free and liberated homeland, former General Nikolai Alexander Kulev and other White leaders invited engineers, scientists, and technicians to rebuild the nation and to pave the way to Russia's Future. The former engineer traveled to New York, to meet with some members of the Technical Alliance, a group of engineers, scientists, and technicians based in New York City, formed towards the end of 1919 by American engineer Howard Scott. The Alliance started an Energy Survey of North America, aimed at documenting the wastefulness of the capitalist system. The Technical Alliance advocated a more rational and productive society headed by technical experts, but their survey work failed to have a significant impact. Although some waste was documented, the "prosperity and conservatism of the 1920s undermined the political orientation of the Technical Alliance", and it disbanded in 1921 and the energy survey was not completed. Nether the less Nikolai was fascinated by their ideals and goals and met with other scientists, political theorists and influential figures in North America and Europe. The rise to power of the National Fascist Party (PNF) in the Kingdom of Italy in 1921 under Benito Mussolini fascinated Nikolai and influenced him as much as the former Soviet friends and allies that sided with the Whites in or after the civil war. Back in Russia in 1923 Nikolai wrote another book, the “Peace without Victory” where he questioned former US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, because true self-determination was not the case at Versailles, neither for the Italian irredentism, the wish of the Germans in Austria to be part of the German Republic, or the Chinese, that still had to accept colonies and foreign domination on their coasts. Nikolai also called his former allies Great Britain and France liars in his book, because they didn't truly liberate the Arabian tribes in former Ottoman Territory but keep their war gains as kind of colonies, even if they called it Mandates of the Leagues of Nations. His writings and books brought Nikolai the sympathy of many leftists, fascist, or other anti-communist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist movements and among workers and intellectuals alike. He formed the Russian Technical Alliance, later called the Technical Alliance Confederation to work for the goals the Technical Alliance had dreamed of. Nikolai had become a Technocrat, but he still faced many opposition for his ambitions and plans.
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Together with other engineers, scientists, and technicians in the Russian Technical Alliance the ambitious Nikolai realized that no really change was possible, as long as parts of the old aristocratic elite of the Russian Empire were still in charge of the Russian Confederation. While the Whites searched for Lenin and Trotsky in exile and managed to murder the first they didn't see that the Technocrats were making their move. Slowly they gained important positions in the government and on the night 21 January 1924 the popular Nikolai and his Technocrats where assigned with the Organization of the new government, according to the testament of the Supreme Governor of Russia. Fast the Technocrats claimed power and hold all major positions of the Russian Confederation. In the future they planned that professors, engineers, scientists, and technicians should rule the state and it's system as a Technate. The Russian Technical Alliance reformed the society where the elitist ruled and the laboring class was to do what it was told in a highly militarized or authoritarian society. The state was renamed Technate Confederation and the ruler of this state was named Supreme Technate from now on. The former Confederate Nations where renamed the Belarus Technate, Central Asia Technate, Estonia Technate, Finland Technate, Latvia Technate, Lithuania Technate, Mongolia Technate, Poland Technate, Russia Technate, South Caucasus Technate, Tuva and the Ukraine Technate. Till 1932/33 Nikolai had eliminated all enemies and established a semi-religious leader cult around himself. This development was a boost for other Technate sympathizes and even some socialists and fascist movements that joined their cause.
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In the Weimar Republic the German Technate Party formed out of socialist, fascist, industrial and authoritarian elements. In Great Britain and other Parts of the Empire the Commonwealth Technate Party and similar political movements raised, many of them anti-colonial. The Technate Party of French would shortly become the second largest Technate movement outside of the Technate Confederation, but even within the USA the North American Technate under Howard Scott became more and more popular, since the first five-year-plan of the Technate greatly helped the growth of the industry and the economy of the Technate Confederation and many professors, engineers, scientists, and technicians from Western countries traveled to former Russia to be a part of the Technate. A nation driven by futurism was on the rise and Nikolai dreamed that one day the whole world would be free from monarchies, tyrants or other unjust rule. While they remained future-inspired, anti-monarchical, glorified Science and Technology, Nikolai added totalitarian, militarist and even religious elements to the idea, to strengthen his own rule. St. Petersburg was renamed Technograd and the city was modernized in the Art Deco Architecture. The whole state was guided to collaboration among each and every part of the society, at the same time ruled by a elite. Steady progress was the dream of this Utopian nation, at the same time Nikolai, who renamed himself simple the Prophet (of a new millennial) organized a highly technological-scientific-economic nation and together with his advisers and partly idealist dreams his five-yea-plans became quiet effective.

In the year 1934, when the Iron Technate Front (made up by the military and industrialists) gained power in Germany even Mussolini in Italy had reorganized his Fashists slightly in the Technate image. Even the Japanese Empire had a Techate party, with the Zaibatsu Technate, a influential part of the industrial-military complex with ties to the Army and Navy that was largely involved into the invasion of Manchuria and the idea of expanding towards China and Southeast Asia. The Technocratic International, lead by the Prophet Nikolai had turned their eyes around the world. After their forced industrialization and a growing economy, the Prophet felt that the time was right to support other Technate movements all around the globe. Nikolai parted with Mussolini after his Invasion of Abyssinia in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War that started in October 1935, after a battle on 5 December 1934, and ended in May 1936. While Mussolini tried to rebuild the Roman Empire, Nikolai sided with German Chancellor (later called Coordinator as the position of the Chancellor and the President were put together) Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg and supported his goal to annex Austria and the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Now Nikolai tried to get Hugenberg to become a part of the Technate Confederation with the German Technate under Coordinator Hugenberg after that. At the same time Nikolai decided to support the Falangist Nationalist Movement in the Spanish Civil War against the Republicans in hope to establish another Technate in Europe. But Nikolai not only focussed on Europe with his vision, as he took preparations for supporting warlords in the Republic of China, where he established the Xinjang Technate just ine year later in 1937 under Sheng Shicai and strongly supported the Technate Party of China (TPC) under Mao Zedong against the Kuomintang (KMT) goverment of Chiang Kai-shek.

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Since I'm myself are really bad at flags, whould someone make me flags for the Technate Confederation, just instead of the hammer and sickle with a gear and a hammer, kinda like this:

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Also the colours should be inspired by the flags of the Whites and the independence movements during the civil war with less or no red and soviet flag colours. Grey would be great for the whole Technate Confederation, while the Russian Technate could just have the white, blue and rad flag behind the sign. Only if anyone is interested in making alternate flags! ;D
 
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