Was There Ever A Chance For An Independent Alaska?

If Russia keeps it, and then the Whites seize it in the Russian Civil War, it might be kept independent. Maybe. I've been thinking of a timeline of this sort myself.
 
Well you could have the Russians deciding not to sell Alaska to the United States. Let's say history runs its course as in OTL and when the Russian Civil War takes place, the Whites decide to make Alaska their base of operations and when they lose control of mainland Russia to the Communists, they break off as an independent Alaskan country under the military protection of the United States of America.

Asides from that, I can't think of much else.
 

Cook

Banned
they break off as an independent Alaskan country under the military protection of the United States of America.

Surely not, not when they are next door to a British Dominion and the Royal Navy is the most powerful in the world.

I give you the British Mandate of Alaska, with League of Nations authorisation granted at Versailles no less.
:)
 

Germaniac

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Surely not, not when they are next door to a British Dominion and the Royal Navy is the most powerful in the world.

I give you the British Mandate of Alaska, with League of Nations authorisation granted at Versailles no less.
:)

However if it becomes a British Mandate wouldn't it technically have to be given independence some day since it would probably have gained at least some semblance of autonomy to begin with from St. Petersburg.
 

Cook

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However if it becomes a British Mandate wouldn't it technically have to be given independence some day since it would probably have gained at least some semblance of autonomy to begin with from St. Petersburg.

That’s the point; Mandated Territories were not colonies, they were being prepared for independence.
 
It's probably ASB, but interesting all the same: The death of Seward win the Lincoln assassination conspiracy results in Russia being stuck with a colony for which they have no use, until the 1880's when persecution of the Jews in the Empire increases. In this ATL, the Jews instead or emigrating or being killed are dumped in Russian America where the foundations for a later Jewish state are laid.
 
AS others have noted, the best possibility would be during the Russian civil war, with Alaska becoming a White refuge of sorts. On the other hand, since the WW1 allies invaded Russia in 1918/19 to assist the whites, I could easily see the USA, Britain, or both jointly occupying Alaska with little intention of restoring it as a fully independent state, even if it becomes a League Mandate. A lot would depend on how Alaska developed as Russian territory between the 1860's and 1900's. If it became home to a sizeable and largely self-sustaining White Russian population, immediate independence might occur after the Whites lost. If the Russians did not settle the territory in large numbers in the 19th century and it remained largelly native (Inuit, Aleut, and American Indian), I suspect it would either be assimilated into Canada or divided between the US and Britain.
 
Surely not, not when they are next door to a British Dominion and the Royal Navy is the most powerful in the world.

I give you the British Mandate of Alaska, with League of Nations authorisation granted at Versailles no less.
:)

Ah my fault. It would be a British protectorate.
 
I would think it would either make its way into Canada or just be taken by the US. I dont know why the Tsar would want to flee their, to him, a exile in Paris or London would be prefered.

There are more then a couple of "Tsar flees to Alaska after being overthrown" threads on this site.
 
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