WI: Russia in Central Powers?

You did and do present the magnitude of the problems of OTL as the same Russia and Germany would have to face ITTL. You are essentially ignoring the changed parameters of TTL to a large part.
A different composition of the CP means different theatres of war, different mobilisation plans, different strategies and a different focus on industry, logistics and mobilisation. The whole workload of the war will be differently distributed because the alliance blocs change.

Russian armies ITTL will not attack and be defeated in East Prussia, they will have no need to take Galicia as per OTL because Austria-Hungary is probably also in this ATL CP, they do not try to force through the Carpathians in winter like they did IOTL, they will be send to different fronts (or in the case of the Balkans could provide some assistance to Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria) using different roads and railways meaning the logistics of OTL cannot be used to correctly gauge Russian capabilities for ATL fronts.

I agree that there will be limitations to a Russian buildup due to a different investment and we do really need a closer look at economic data to name the precise capabilities of this ATL CP.

My other argument is not based on the specifics or the feasibility of the Schlieffen Plan, I brought it up because I wanted to show that if one thought himself inferior to a foe in a long war at this point in time, then he would aim for a short and decisive strike to force an early favourable peace. ITTL France and Italy would be terrified of this ATL CP because this ATL CP can easily outlast them in a long war.

Yes but using the known limits of capacity for those potential fronts can. There is a reason that the Land borders of the various states had fetched up where they were by 1914, they were on or close to the defensible frontiers.

Now Germany might aim for a short war, Russia would aim for a short war as it had experience of its own internal weakness, however once the long war set in there is no real indicator that the CP as they are referred to in this thread could outlast the Entente in fact the contrary I think is narrowly indicated in the publicly available data of the time and more so given what I know...but I have to add I have not devoted my life to an in depth study of the Late Tsarist economy and there may be enough overlap in resources to overturn my baseline assumptions...that said somebody needs to come up with evidence for that that was we all know that in OTL Russia,Germany and AH all went down to economic defeat and yes things that actually happened can be submitted as evidence whe trying to argue what might happen.
 
The war isn't likely to last long enough for these economics issues to be decisive. A Germany/Russia alliance isn't going to take 4 years to win the land war. You're likely looking at a much shorter conflict ending with an earlier negotiated peace. A lot of things had to go wrong for Russia before the Tsar was deposed, and I don't think it's particularly likely to happen in a shorter war with less causalities that isn't taking place on Russian soil.
 
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