What timeline should I do?

Which one should I do?

  • Seekers of Truth

    Votes: 9 12.2%
  • Disaster at Kiev

    Votes: 37 50.0%
  • Death of the Man of Steel

    Votes: 28 37.8%

  • Total voters
    74
  • Poll closed .
Hi. I've been bored lately, so I decided to start a new timeline. However, I have three options, all of which I equally like, and so I give it to you, the community, to decide.

Options:

Seekers of Truth--The weirdest of my proposed timelines (in my mind), this one'll actually be pre-1900 and be based around the continuing association of Allan Octavian Hume (who founded the Indian National Congress) with the Theosophical Society of Madame Blavatsky. Hume still founds the INC: however, rather than consisting completely of handpicked U of Calcutta alumni, the first congress is a mix of these and prominent members of the Theosophical Society, leading to a much more Theosophically-driven Indian independent movement and a more powerful Theosophy overall. Crazy stuff goes down.

Disaster at Kiev--One of my favorite PODs: when Dmitri Bogrov attempts to assassinate Pyotr Stolypin in 1911, Nicholas II is accidentally killed in the crossfire, while Stolypin lives. The grieving Empress Alexandra, designated regent for the young Tsarevich, returns Stolypin to the position of Chairman of the Council of Ministers and gives him wide-ranging powers, effectively making him dictator of Russia. Stolypin proceeds to destroy his political opponents (Rasputin included), rightist and leftist alike, and continues sponsoring Russia's tentative industrialization and agrarian reforms. Stolypin manages to keep Russia out of WWI with a bit of difficulty. More crazy stuff goes down.

Death of the Man of Steel--Rather than Yakov Sverdlov being killed in Moscow by a brick-worker, Stalin is killed by the man. Sverdlov proceeds to die of influenza only two days after Lenin, leaving the USSR with a divided leadership and no possibility of any single dictator rising out of the morass. The USSR industrializes slower than OTL, but with more depth and the Red Army retains a superior officer corps. Further crazy stuff happens.
 
Death of the Man of Steel. I can't resist a Soviet timeline, I'm especially curious if you tackle the idea of democratic centralism within the Party if there is no sole leader or if its left to the development of factions.
 
Death of the Man of Steel. I can't resist a Soviet timeline, I'm especially curious if you tackle the idea of democratic centralism within the Party if there is no sole leader or if its left to the development of factions.

I always do like Soviet TLs.

Anyhow, we're at Disaster at Kiev as number one, with Death of the Man of Steel following at a fairly fast clip, with Seekers of Truth lagging behind.
 
They all sound excellent.

I'd love to see how the Hindu, Muslim, etc. masses of India respond to Theosophy. The "Disaster at Kiev" has the scary potential of most of Europe ending up under the control of authoritarians who are not crazy enough to self-destruct.

But I gotta go with Dead Stalin. Watching Operation Barbarossa get shaved by a competent officer corps under the command of a fractious herd-of-cats committee would be all kinds of awesome.
 
I've finished the first post of Disaster in Kiev, since it's sort of obvious that that'll be the winner. It features a lot of extralegal affairs.
 
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