What if Central Asia remained part of the Russian SFR through all Soviet history?

raharris1973

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See map of USSR from 1922

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Soviet_Union_-_Russian_SFSR_%281922%29.svgS

Kazakhstan, Turkeminstan, Kirghizstan and some of Tajikstan are still part of the RSFR here.

The Transcaucasus was a single SFR at this point. Crimea was in Russia,

What if this remained to configuration of Union Republics for the rest of Soviet history (not counting further acquired republics during WWII)?

What's the impact on Soviet history, and if there is a post-Soviet era, post Soviet Russia?
 

CaliGuy

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Perhaps there is slightly more ethnic Russian settlement in Central Asia in this TL; however, I doubt it.

Otherwise, I'm not sure that there would be much change other than butterflies. Indeed, the main change would be that millions of Russians wouldn't emigrate from Central Asia if/after the Soviet Union collapses in this TL.

Also, if any part of Central Asia tries going the Chechnya route after the end of the Cold War in this TL, then we could see more problems with jihadists for Russia.
 
Perhaps there is slightly more ethnic Russian settlement in Central Asia in this TL; however, I doubt it.

Otherwise, I'm not sure that there would be much change other than butterflies. Indeed, the main change would be that millions of Russians wouldn't emigrate from Central Asia if/after the Soviet Union collapses in this TL.

Also, if any part of Central Asia tries going the Chechnya route after the end of the Cold War in this TL, then we could see more problems with jihadists for Russia.

I'm trying to comprehend a Central Asian uprising. It would be like Chechnya on steroids and, depending on the butterflies, could have a safe haven/support network run from Afghanistan and/or even Iran.
 

CaliGuy

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I'm trying to comprehend a Central Asian uprising. It would be like Chechnya on steroids and, depending on the butterflies, could have a safe haven/support network run from Afghanistan and/or even Iran.
To be honest, I'm not sure how likely a Central Asian uprising actually would be in this TL. Indeed, I don't know what caused the Chechens to rebel in our TL, but Central Asia was very pro-Union--as evidenced by its overwhelming vote in favor of keeping the Soviet Union in March 1991.
 
If the Central Asian republics are not separated from the RSFSR, this has implications for the rest of the emergent Communist zone. Will federative republics like Transcaucasia also survive? Will it and others like Ukraine instead get directly annexed into Russia? Will these Soviet republics, instead, remain de jure independent?
 

raharris1973

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Will federative republics like Transcaucasia also survive?

This can be a choose your own adventure kind of thing, but I suppose if republic borders are "frozen" before splitting off of Central Asian republics, Transcaucasia was still a unit and could be frozen in place.

Will it and others like Ukraine instead get directly annexed into Russia?

Not unless further changes make it so. Was consolidation of any republics from smaller to larger ever considered in Soviet history?

Will these Soviet republics, instead, remain de jure independent?

OTL they were in a union with a confederal constitution. Prior to that constitution, were the Soviet Republics de jure independent?
 
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