====== Points of Divergence : Russia ====== Stretching from the Baltic to the Pacific, Russia is hard to ignore. They hold the record for largest land area of a country, and have a long and colorful history. Russia has history of containing the only Jewish nation ever to exist outside of the Holy Land, as well as being hte homeland of almost all of the Mongol Empire's longer lasting successor states. Russia the country began with the Duchy of Moscowy, a small city-state north of the steppe. It united all of European Russia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries colonized Siberia and the northernmost Far East. Russia had a history of colonialism in Alaska and the northwest, and even started a couple of settlements in California. After WW1, Russia became the first and debatably most succesful Communist nation. It finally reverted into a republic in the 1990s. Because of its massive effect on history as "that big hulking superpower-to-be", the AH potential of Russia is huge. Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Russia. ==== Prehistory ==== Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Antiquity ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=101608|WI Ancient Greeks colonize the southern coasts and inlands of Russia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=251205|Challenge: Zoroastrian Russia]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=178124|In regards to Slavic migrations]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/nations-on-sakhalin-and-taiwan.275968/|Native populations on Sakhalin forming their own nations]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== The Middle Ages ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=149301|A completely Russia-less world ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=254803|WI: Russia christianizes before Poland]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=76226|Discussion on Russia forming as a Muslim nation instead of an Orthodox Christian one]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=245940|Russia becoming a Muslim nation]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=72730|More discussion on Russia becoming Muslim, this time focusing on Kazan]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=71921|Discussion on a Jewish Russia]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=71921|Vladimir I. converts to Judaism]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=119844|Plausibility check: The Kievan Rus colonising Siberia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=218089|Biggest plausible Russia with a POD after 1054 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=275885|WI: Teutonic Order wins Battle of the Ice]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=40206|Plausibility check: A "Holmgard Union" (Sweden–Novgorod union) ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=287215|Challenge: Make something different to rule Russia then the Tsar !]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=249006|Andrew of Polotsk becomes the King of Lithuania]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=226483|Challenge: Surviving Novgorodian Independence]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Early Modern history ==== * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=16252&|Discussion on a more Asiatic-focused Russia]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=225495|Challenge: Russian Überwank]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=249202|WI: Ivan Ivanovich (son of Ivan IV) lives]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=267408|Challenge: Orthodox conversion east of Rus]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-protestant-russia.202178/|Protestant Russia]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=290599|Challenge: Early Muscovite absorption of Ukraine & Belarus]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=208054|Challenge: Eastern European colonies]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=303931|Who else could have colonized Siberia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=302789|Challenge: Bigger Russian population base in Siberia]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=320234|Challenge: A bigger Russian Empire (with a POD after 1547)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=59172|Plausibility check: Earlier arctic trade between Russia and Europe ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=363706|Russia without Peter I's Europeanization]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 18th and 19th century ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265916|No St. Petersburg - Alternate names for Russian cities along the Neva River]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=353944|WI: St. Petersburg not the capital of Russia ?]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=269660|PODs concerning the line of succession issues of the Romanovs during the first half of the 18th century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259482|WI Peter III. had Catherine the Great sent off to a nunnery as he had planned ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=352545|WI: Peter III. had freed Ivan VI. ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=241794|WI Russia and Austria attack Berlin after Kunersdorf (1759) ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259155|WI: No Russian coup of 1762]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=85249|What if the British teamed up with the Poles against the 18th century alliance of Prussia, Austria and Russia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=225021|France/Austria/Russia win the Seven Years War]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=300998|Plausibility check: A Napoleon analogue from late 18th century Russia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=157381|WI : Paul I of Russia isn't assassinated in 1801 (1)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=332847|WI : Paul I of Russia isn't assassinated in 1801 (2)]]** * **[[napoleonic wars|Napoleonic Wars PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=134739|Napoleon wins in Russia 1812]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=183794|Tsar Paul I not assasinated]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=24549|A TL about Constantine becoming Tsar in 1825]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=305373|Challenge: Russia vs. Spain War (with a POD between 1815 and 1900]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=133946|Plausibility check: Prussian-Russian minority exchange]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=33038|Discussion on Russia selling Alaska to Japan]]** * **[[pods:Crimean War|Crimean War PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=240796|WI: No January Uprising in Poland in 1863]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=251957|WI: Russia annexes Polish Silesia, Galicia and Posen]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=159215|Plausibility check: What would 19th century Russia's wet-dream scenario in the Balkans look like ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=303168|Russia and a Constitution]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/russian-pacific.210653/|Russian Pacific]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-czar-alexander-ii-hadnt-gotten-out-of-the-carriage.153485/|WI czar Alexander II hadn't gotten out of the carriage ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=120715|Challenge: German-Russian alliance in 1910s WWI with a POD in 1885, with both countries getting defeated in the war]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=157273|WI the League of Three Emperors lasts longer than until 1890 (as in OTL) ?]]** * **[[pods:russo-japanese war|Russo-Japanese War PODs]]** * **[[pods:Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II of Russia PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=366842|Population and population growth of a surviving Tsarist Russia ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Early 20th century (includes WWI and the RCW) ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=99043|Plausibility check: Russo-German Alliance after the fading of the League of Three Emperors]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=313094|Plausibility check: Cold War with a surviving Imperial Russia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=289497|DBWI: Dogger Bank Incident is Ignored ?]]** * **[[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II of Russia PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=284447|Balkanize Russia with a POD after 1900]]** * **[[pods:WWI|World War I PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=143224|Largest plausible Russia/USSR with a POD after 1914 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=52443|Rasputin assassinated before WWI]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=289232|WI the Vezdekhod is mass produced ?]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=63378|Discussion about Kerensky staying leader of Russia longer]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257234|WI the Mensheviks and Right SRs stay ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=328747|What's the latest the Soviet Union could be avoided ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=172871|WI: No October Revolution]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=88152|Discussion about Russia if WWI never occurs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=211628|Russian revolution comes early]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-lenin-never-made-it-into-tsarist-russia-in-1917.30093/|WI Lenin Never Made it Into Tsarist Russia in 1917 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=252342|WI: Lenin's untimely death]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=342336|WI Lenin dies circa August 1917]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=253132|What happens to Russia without a Bolshevik takeover ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=322805|Bolshevik Revolution without Kornilov affair]]** * **[[Russian Civil War|Russian Civil War PODs]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/vatsetis-assassinated-lenin-falls-july-1918.274568/|Vatsetis assassinated, Lenin falls (July 1918)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=32124&|Timeline about Russia staying Tsarist]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=30088|Discussion on Russia being taken over by a Nazi-like regime instead of Communists]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=1386|Discussion about a democracy arising in Russia after the Tsars fell]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=16188|An AH challenge involving discussion about Russia (monarchic or republican) staying a superpower]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256290|Plausibility check: Peace terms Russia could have got 1917-18]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259100|Russia lasting to the end of WWI ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256282|Short timeline about a White Russian victory, with extensive POD and plausibility discussion]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=126825|WI Kerensky surrendered]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266026|Kerensky Makes Peace in 1917]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=235071|Tsarist Russia survives, but its relationship with Britain becomes a cold war in the 20th century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=350391|Cinema without Russian Revolution ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Interwar Period and WWII ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=295600|WI: Soviet Invasion of Honshu]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=143224|Largest plausible Russia/USSR with a POD after 1914 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=331221|WI: Humanitarian Soviet Union (with a POD between 1910 and 1930)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257963|WI: The USSR keeps the whole Russian Empire]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=104990|The Soviets opt for a single state solution]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=203432|How long could the Kronstadt rebels have held out ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=128222|WI Mikhail Frunze hadn't died in 1925]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ussr-w-o-wwii.376508/|What would the USSR be like without WWII ?]]** * **[[WWII|World War II PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=109756|WI Japan wins the Battle of Khalkhin Gol ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=88215|A Soviet-Japanese War in 1939-1941 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=72719|Plausibility check: Was the USSR actually capable of conquering Japan at the end of WWII ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=132522|Germany doesn't betray Russia in WWII]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=255851|Reverse Barbarossa]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=235035|Operation Barbarossa halted after Kiev]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=251309|WI: Stalin assassinated in spring 1941]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=280478|Alternative Soviet Navy during World War II]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=152793|Russian Nazi satelite state in WWII ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259171|Is it plausible for the Soviets to be defeated in WWII ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=289979|WI: No Battle of Moscow ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=315551|No Rolls Royce Nene engines sent accidentally to the USSR during WWII ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== After WWII ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=135790|A more eastern Iron Curtain ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=295307|Why was the USSR allowed to keep it's conquered territories ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258661|Challenge: Earlier Soviet Collapse]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=81097|WI the Soviet Union survives ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=112257|Plausibility check: An actually successful Perestroika and its consquences ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=243570|Plausibility problems with Soviet liberalization PODs (1)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260383|Plausibility problems with Soviet liberalization PODs (2)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=176326|Soviet Internet and related thoughts]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=110226|The Soviet Union survives, and makes game systems]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=145149|Challenge: Russia doesn't leave Soviet Union]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=348147|Challenge/WI: The Russian SFSR fragmented with the USSR in the 1980s/90s]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=238999|WI Russian Communists were banned in 1991 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=56759|WI Yeltsin died during the August Coup of 1991 ?]]** * **[[pods:Post-Cold War Conflicts|Post-Cold War conflicts PODs]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Miscellaneous ==== * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-czarinas-for-the-romanovs.371997/|Alternate czarinas for the Romanovs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=355674|WI: Russia ends at Dnieper]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=51303|WI Russia obtained a chunk of Africa ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=292376|Challenge: The Baltic Sea as somebody's Mare Nostrum]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=59172|Plausibility check: Earlier artic trade between Russia and Europe ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=328661|Challenge: Make Russia Europe's first (modern) democracy]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=200894|How late can European Russia break up with a pre-1900 POD ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== ASB / ISOT / Geological ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=325096|Modern Russia ISOTed to 1914]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== See Also ==== **[[offtopic:Russia]]** **[[timelines:Russia|Russian Timelines and Scenarios]]** **[[resources:Russia|Useful Resources about Russia]]** ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[Specific Countries|List of Countries by POD]]** **[[pods:pods|Points of Divergence Main Directory]]**