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  1. Joubert survives to back Brumaire?

    Suppose that Joubert survives the Battle of Novi and is the general who backs Sieyes's 18 Brumaire coup, as he originally intended. The Constitution of Year VIII is much more in line with Sieyes's original ideas, and intended to establish political stability by forming an oligarchy which will...

  2. An ISOT story in manga: Murakami Motoka's "Jin"

    The first couple volumes are available translated into English online.

  3. CH: Islam Remains Powerful Into The Modern Day

    ... which wanted to form a socialist union with the rest of French Indochina, IIRC.

  4. Franco-Austrian alliance manifested by 1870.

    In terms of PoD, I was thinking a more successful Second Mexican Empire (lasting at least into the 1870s), which leads to better Franco-Austrian relations and thus a willingness of the Austrians to ally with France without the Italians.

  5. Franco-Austrian alliance manifested by 1870.

    Consequences on the Franco-Prussian War? Would it just not happen?

  6. Communist CSA - Details?

    If by "matter of degree" you mean "completely different context and a couple orders of magnitude" then sure. Someone probably could also make the case that a fascist dictatorship in the USA is also only different in a "matter of degree" from the Wilson administration.

  7. Communist CSA - Details?

    The Cheka and camps of Lenin's day were not the NKVD and GULAG of Stalin's day.

  8. Communist CSA - Details?

    Lenin was in charge of a country in the middle of a bloody, ideological civil war and that was also being invaded by over a dozen foreign powers all dead-set on killing every last Bolshevik. Also, there are some pretty huge differences in scale between the two's governments.

  9. Communist CSA - Details?

    You're talking as though penal labor and covert internal security are hugely original ideas. The covert internal security of the NKVD was totally structurally unrelated to the previous Okhrana. They resembled them by parallel evolution, they were not inherited. Mass penal labor in the sense...

  10. Communist CSA - Details?

    No. To some extent, the Leninist bureaucracy was inherited from the Tsarist bureaucracy but... that's it. Economically, politically and socially, they were hugely and fundamentally different from start to finish. The closest similarity you can point out is that they were authoritarian, but...

  11. Communist CSA - Details?

    Free Dixie Socialist Republic (or some variant thereof) is the best name for such a state, imo. It's clear, concise, and avoids the problems of "Confederate" (namely, that the revolutionaries will hate the Confederacy with a firey passion) and "American" (there's a country that calls itself...

  12. AHC: Have Russia occupy Alaska and the EU dissolve in the next ten years

    What about an earlier PoD? Maybe the US winds up on the side of the Central Powers in WWI, and the Russians take Alaska back. Then, I dunno, the Germans (who won WWI ittl) try to found a European Union, which collapses on itself with the collapse of Austria-Hungary.

  13. Post-1900 US Civil War?

    I think The Revolution Will Be Live had a decent PoD (bigger post-WWI socialist movement that gets crushed and sends the country to the hard right), with the United States becoming exaggeratedly conservative and vaguely fascistic and all the various problems of the 60s and 70s (race problems...

  14. Plausibility Check: Communist Russia

    Not like a total turn-around into USSR-in-the-60s. A significantly more important nation, though. More than regional, less than superpower.

  15. Plausibility Check: Communist Russia

    Here's a basic outline of a TL: 1995: Yeltsin dies, Chernomyrdin succeeds him. The KPRF takes a thin control of parliament, forces the remainder of Chernomyrdin's term to have absolutely nothing happen. 1996: With no serious moderate candidates, and the oligarchs divided on who to support...

  16. Plausibility Check: Communist Russia

    I mean, not necessarily literally Leninist, but something very hard left, a very serious party, unlike the "bend like a reed in the storm" KPRF, which gets so much shit from Russians for being a weak, regime-supported/supporting party that some propose Zyuganov let Yeltsin win. In terms of...

  17. Plausibility Check: Communist Russia

    Bumping this.

  18. Plausibility Check: Communist Russia

    Instead of surviving his July 1995 heart attack, Yeltsin perishes. Viktor Chernomyrdin becomes the Acting President, and he stinks up the office real bad, basically killing his party's chances for winning the election and pushing the country a little more to the left. The result is that in the...

  19. Affects of a Socialist Germany after WWI?

    Zimmerwald1915's Wir Sind Spartakus TL deals with a successful German revolution. Assuming something like that (the November Revolution or its like succeeds in the immediate postwar period), you'll definitely see Germany get harsher treatment by the Entente, though I'm inclined to think that an...

  20. DBWI: Fascist Germany instead of Communist

    I'm not sure that the Soviet Union would've gone to war without Germany. Despite its rapid industrialization, the Soviet Union was a weak, unindustrialized country, and it would have been worse off without German aid. I mean, Smirnov was a pretty aggressive leader, but without a socialist...
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