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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. Franco-Austrian alliance manifested by 1870.

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

  3. 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...

  4. RP: Estimated Soviet GDP increases 5%

    According to the recent study by University of Minnesota professor Charles Johnson, the GDP of the USSR increased in 2009 by an good 5% while the West's GDP growth was generally negative due to the recent recession. Yes, yes, I know, "it's an autarky, of course it would be unaffected, a bloo...

  5. Effects of no WW2 on the United States

    There is a tendency in the West to view the New Deal as either completely effective or, more rarely, to politicize it as being a miserable failure because it was anti-free market and thus debilitated the US economy even further. But although the United States' GDP had caught up to its previous...

  6. Welcome Back, Lenin! - An Alternate History of the 1996 Presidential Election

    Welcome Back, Lenin! - An Alternate 1996 Presidential Election "[A]ll too often the beliefs of the "born again" Russian Marxist-Leninists were disregarded by Western observers of contemporary Russian developments. If it was commonly thought before perestroika that the Soviet order could never...

  7. WI: Finlandization of Eastern Europe

    Suppose that in the aftermath of WW2, rather than propping up Muscovite communists in all of eastern Europe, the Soviets instead let the countries return to parliamentary systems. For the same old strategic defensive purposes (giant buffer zone), the Soviets establish military bases across...

  8. Uh, is this some sort of alternate universe? Q&A

    VFAU:From Dixie, With Love Hello. I believe I have somehow wound up in this alternative universe and am looking for some help to get my bearings. My name is Ashley Winters, I was born on November 8, 1892 AD in Macon County, Alabama in the former Confederacy. I am now 34 years old, and was...

  9. WI Yeltsin Dies, late June 1996?

    From what we know now, Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, suffered a heart attack in late June/early July of 1996, between the first and second rounds of voting. This was kept secret at the time, and Yeltsin simply retired from the public view on the grounds of...

  10. Challenge: Keep the Left-SRs in the Soviet government

    Reading about it, it seems like the war (or more correctly the peace) was the major issue which lead the Left-SRs to rebel against the Bolshevik rule and history sides with the Bolsheviks in that regard. Historically the Bolsheviks went so far as to openly demonstrate that they were completely...

  11. KPRF comes to power in Russia, 1996.

    Let's say Yeltsin botches things more in privatization, wheeling-and-dealing with local elites and the economic crash, and purges the Communists less effectively in 1993. The 1996 Presidential elections come around, and the KPRF winds up winning. Zyuganov is the President and the KPRF is the...

  12. The United States with a gentler Cold War?

    Let's suppose for a moment that Stalin does not become GenSec or at least maintain that position for long. Zinoviev or Bukharin ends up succeeding Lenin and leading the USSR during WW2. Their successor is a more pro-democracy member of the Politburo (Preobrazhensky, maybe?), and the Soviet...

  13. USSR WI: No Ban on Factions

    The year is 1921. The Bolsheviks are beginning to truly reestablish control over Russia, but there are many problems. As the need for a "united front" and silent consent dissipates amongst members of the Communist Party while the Whites are ground into the dust, left-wing uprisings against...

  14. DBWI: Top 5 Worst USSA Chairmen

    List the top 5 worst Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars, from 1-5 (1 being the worst, 5th being the least bad, etc). This thread isn't for discussion of the old USA Presidency, so don't put any of them in there. 1. David North (SWP) - I guess Mr. North demonstrated for us all the...

  15. WI: Commiewank?

    Okay, so I know it's wanky, but there's a reasonable chance of the various western powers going Communist (especially Germany and Italy). So let's suppose that revolutionary socialists of one stripe or another (whatever's most appropriate) take power throughout the Western world. France...

  16. WI: Kronstadt uprising "successful"?

    In February 1921, a collection of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians put together a list of fifteen demands of the RSFSR, to reduce the Bolshevik's dominance of the machinations of government. They revolted and were then suppressed in March. What if they had succeeded? Historically, the...

  17. Most likely authoritarian nation to reform?

    Which of these authoritarian nations would be most likely to reform in terms of political freedoms, while retaining their ideological bent and name? Assume any PoD after their birth and before their death. A politically reformed country in this sense means popular sovereignty, freedom to...

  18. WI: Taliban hands over bin Laden.

    On September 20, 2001, the White House offered an ultimatum to Afghanistan, demanding they hand over al-Qaeda leaders. What (say, because of some hardcore CIA bribery) if they had? What would be the long term consequences?

  19. DBWI: Pigeontoad's "A World of Tears" a Reality?

    OOC: I see far too many DBWIs where, apparently, class conflict never erupted into a successful revolution anywhere. This DBWI is to counteract all of those, and then some. :cool: ITTL, revolutionary socialism (note: this is not much like Marxism-Leninism) became the dominant ideology of the...

  20. A Communard France?

    Okay, now I know this tends to be considered ASB, but let's just suppose for a second, that through some combination of leadership, charisma, resources, strategy, relative stability and support that they lacked historically, the Communards end up triumphing over the Republicans, establishing the...
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