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(green - Russian Empire; orange - puppet states; blue - allies)


There is no Crimean War ITTL, probably because there's a different tsar, maybe one who's keener on modernizing and not pushing his luck.

Instead, the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire are offered land in the east if they pledge their allegiance to the Tsar.

With more people, there's more pressure against China, which culminates with China losing all of the sparsely-populated Manchuria to Russian settlers.

Gold is also discovered in Alaska, and so people also migrate there.

During this time, there is also conflict with Japan, that sees Germany acquire thinly-populated Hokkaido, whilst the rest of Japan comes under Anglo-French economic interest.

Russia keeps industrializing, and at some point there's a world war, early into the 20th Century - Germany+Austria-Hungary+Ottomans+Japan(who rise up in rebellion) vs Britain+France+Russia+Serbia+Greece

The Russians end up on the winning side after a little less than a year of fighting, and force Germany to give up Polish-majority areas, Hokkaido and the Mariana Islands, A-H to give up Galicia, Bukowina and Slovakia (which becomes a Russian protectorate), the Ottomans to give up Thrace to Greece, Trebizond and Armenia (which both become a Russian protectorates) and Kurdistan, the Japanese to give up the Ryukyu Islands.

A decade or so later, China collapses into warlordism, and so Russia steps in.


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