WI: Communist Baltic states after ww1?

They managed to win 40% of the vote in Estonia in 1917 and briefly controlled most of Latvia, along with some of Estonia and Lithuania.
 
You mean at least nominally independent East Baltic countries after WWII?

Easiest scenario would be for those states to end up as technically independent countries with Warsaw Pact membership after WWII, rather than SSRs. Done so via an alternate start to WWII that doesn’t involve direct Soviet annexation of those countries.

Or maybe some other scenario where the wave of Leftist revolts and changes after the Russian Revolution somehow take over the East Baltic too. Like, successful Spartacist uprising + surviving Hungarian Soviet Republic + successful Bienno Rosso in Italy providing some kind of environment where the Baltic countries can go Left without the Red Army.

But since I’m not that knowledgeable on the interwar politics of the East Baltic countries, this is all mostly conjecture on my end.
 
It is true that there was indeed support for local left-wing parties in the Baltic States before the Russian Revolution. In the case of Estonia and Latvia, there were among the primary forces fighting for their independence or at least autonomy. Lithuania was a bit more complicated than that, but the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (at the time a much more left-wing party than social democratic parties today) was an important part of the National Revival. It wasn't hard for left-leaning nationalists to agitate here - after all, it's only natural that if the source if oppression is an intolerant autocratic monarchy, then the best solution would be to steer as far away from that as possible and establish a socialistic system, right?

However, despite that, I do not believe that it is possible for the Baltic States to go communist on their own while still keeping the OTL Russian Revolution. Simply enough, the socialism Baltic national movements exhibited was far from the Bolshevism which took over in Russia, which means that the Bolsheviks would find little popular support here if they tried to take over. And it works from the other side, too - the Bolshevik takeover of Russia and the Wars of Independence against them usually discredited the Baltic left-wing (much like what happened in Lithuania, for example).

The only possibility for this scenario is for the Bolsheviks to just brute force their way through and occupy the three Baltic states during the RCW, but while that is an interesting scenario, I don't feel prepared enough to detail it right now.
 
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