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Note: This is not the final draft of the timeline. I may edit some things later. September 2008: the global economy reels in the wake of the largest financial collapse since the Great Depression. It will lead to the failures of multiple national economies in the coming years. January 2011: The...

Basically, this question is inspired by a section of the book Was Revolution Inevitable? which is a collection of essays by historians on the Russian Revolution discussing alternate history scenarios, and the essay I was interested in was the one by Orlando Figes, author of A People's Tragedy...

In this scenario, a bored ROB decides to revive two of the largest modern empires to exist in the modern day, and punt them into the modern day. the British Empire Empire, as it stood on December 25th, 1921, with all its domains and territories, minus modern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, Malta...

On August 15th, 2019, at around 11 PM GMT, the whole planet earth was suddenly covered by a blinding halo of opaque purple light which was visible from every corner of the world. For thirty minutes, the whole planet was in a panic while social media and news channels worldwide went mad with...

-The House Always Wins by The Stupendium In the opening campaign of the Civil War General Grant falls leaving the North bereft of one of it's greatest generals. Consequently the War between the States drags out far longer until the South self-destructs during a series of slave revolts. Radical...

Greetings Comrades! One hundred and four years ago, on this day, the Bolsheviks successfully overthrew the Provisional Government in what would later be termed the October Revolution. The Bolshevik seizure of power would have dramatic and far-reaching implications for the 20th century, and its...

The merging of worlds... It just happened. No lightshow, no thunder, no fanfare. People just woke up one morning to find a changed world. Before everyone knew it, baddies were running the show. Some overtly, some from the shadows, but all in charge. Many Villains were happier than they've...

The Russian Eagle flies no more. The travails of the twentieth century have proved too much for it to bear. Wracked first by the Great War and then by two revolutions, the nation’s unity has been utterly shattered, and chaos and civil war reign from Warsaw to Vladivostok. Vladimir Lenin’s...

If Santa Claus is Russian, then he will bring a war. Jokers and humorists have ruined our country Putin has some kind of special relationship with Time - like the sinister hero of Kafka, Kubin, Hoffmann or Meyrink. He does not let it flow. He plunges Time into sleep. He locked it in Mobius...

Our sweet December. 1825, after the death of Alexander I of Russia, there is a confusion in the line of succession between Konstantin Pavlovich and Nicholas Pavlovich Romanov. At that time the Union of Prosperity took Peter's Square, the civil war broke out in December and lasted until January...

To make it clear, I don't mean how their governments were officially suppose to work but how they work / worked in practice. This came up because somebody I was talking to face to face was saying that Russia is trying to go communist again and that their government is basically communism...

CNN: Radiation levels rose briefly after deadly incident in northern Russia, official tells state media Twitter thread: So from the present looks of it, it appears possible that a Russian nuclear fuel vessel (Serebryanka) may have caught fire and exploded, releasing radioactive materials...

Catherine during her later days of "You know, this enlightenment thing isn't really working so let's just focus on the despotism" Really curious to see how this portrays her since Catherine is someone popular history REALLY seems to get wrong.

Franz Joseph dies in late 1915 and Karl gets on the throne earlier than IOTL. Just like IOTL he doesn't get along with Conrad and quietly sends him off to the Italian front in February 1916. A-H gets a new (more competent) military leadership that avoids OTLs mistakes. The new leadership avoids...

Intro Imperial Russia 13 of March 1885 Asuncion Cathedral Moscow It was a quirk of fate that you, Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov, were now crowned Nicholas II Emperor of Russia. Your father Alexander III had died from a liver disease 4 years into his reign leaving the empire in disarray from...

Inspired by recent events in Venezuela, strangely enough. As I am certain most here know, in October 1993 the nascent Russian Federation was in the grip of a major political crisis that threatened to escalate into civil war. The previous month, President Yeltsin had dissolved the Russian...

The Eastern Whirlwind Fall Blau: The Stalingrad & Caucasus Campaigns At 03:15 on 22 June 1941, 3,829,000 German soldiers and various allies of the Axis Powers launched what was known as Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. The operation was launched from the Baltic to the Black Sea...

What if the unsuccessful Revolution of OTL picks up more steam and seriously threatens the Tsar? What could be the causes for a stronger Revolution? The implications of a Civil War in 1905 are huge. This is a perfect POD to seriously change the power dynamic in Europe. WW1 is potentially...

Chapter 1: Military coup in Russia! The situation in Russia was desperate in the beginning of July 1917. On March 2 1917 (March 15 1917) (dates in parentheses are according to the Gregorian calendar) abdicated Tsar Nikolay 2. after massive demonstrations against the Russian Tsardom. On March 3...

Hi, I am the new guy in town I am planing to do one unique timeline where white army won Russian civil war and soon falls to political movement similar to The National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists - Wikipedia) that would unite reactionary populist...

Like the title said what could happen

For the record, this is the E3 2017 trailer. The main takaways seem to be: Artyom and his merry gang are taking a trip across the frozen wastes by train. They can stay aboveground without the need for gas masks - instead the masks are neccessary for going underground. This is a complete...

A few days ago a trailer was posted for a game that looks almost like a Russian take on a Bioshock kind of game. There's a lot to unpack from that, and it could be very interesting. According to a PC Gamer article, at the core of the game's story is a romance, somehow.

Space...Oh, who am I kidding. You've all heard this speech before. All of them. How space is the final frontier, how it is taken hold of the minds and dreams of mankind for generations. Of the ways that ancient civilizations took their storied heroes and the legendary gods and wrote them into...

[ ] Stanislav Ilyich Volkov. [ ] Yulia Vasilevna Chernikova. [ ] Write-in. For your continued loyalty and services to the Russian Federation in the field of [ ] online surveillance of potential threats (spying on people online) [ ] necessary action against threats to stability (hacking and...