WI: No Russo-Japanese War

What if the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 never happened? Would Manchuria still be part of Russia? Would the Russian revolution still happen? Would Japan still become the major power it did? What about Korea?
 
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Japan would be way more cautious in its foreign policy aims during the 20th cen without contracting victory disease from the RJ War.
 

Japhy

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I doubt that very much. For one thing, the Russian Navy's Baltic fleet wouldn't have sailed halfway across the world only to be annihilated by the Japanese...

Well I know, I'm just wondering why Paul is treating it the way he is.

I mean, the joke of a Duma that came from 1905 did alot to destroy the credibility of liberal reform in Russia before 1917, kind of a big change there.
 
The Russian Revolution might still occur, but because there would be no defeat, they would still not only have their navy, but would be able to reaffirm power militarily in their own country. The defeat showed that this little chain of island's who's population was considered backwards just a few decades before could take on one of the biggest superpower's of the era. It was akin to the Spanish-American war.
 
So, Manchuria, still Russian, or do they Chinese get it back eventually?

If we assume the Russian Civil War still breaks out in the midst of a WWI analog, the Japanese would assume influence over Manchuria and the coastal bits of the RFE as part of the Allied interventionist forces.
 
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