soviet union

IOTL the USSR underwent rapid demographic transition coupled with catastrophic events that stripped its population to levels well below its potential, given Russia's vast land and resources. With a POD after the second world war, is it possible for the Soviet Union to encourage rural settlement...

For example, since the RSFSR in our timeline had no anthem nor a branch party of the CPSU and KGB of its own, and most of the institutions were under direct control of the central state of the USSR, what if Khrushchev or Brezhnev had introduced them, would it have influenced the course of USSR...

Let's say that rather than Gorbachev a hardliner takes over (say Ligachyov) who clamps down on liberalism and in a last ditch attempt to avoid instability embraces neo-stalinist totalitarianism. This fails and order completely breaks down into the Second Russian Civil War that lasts until the...

"1941 was not the worst, oh no. And 1945 was not the end. All we went through together was meaningless. Those desperate, brutal battles against the fascists in the long first summer of the war, the bitter cold outside Moscow and Stalingrad, and our heroic march to Berlin- none of it mattered...

Although many people think that Rosa Luxemburg is German,in fact she was born in Poland,in the then Russian empire.What would have happened if she had remained connected to Russia and not moved to Germany and participated in the October Revolution?Would she have collaborated with Lenin?And let's...

What I mean is let's say that after the Bolsheviks decisively win the Russian Civil War, they content themselves with the borders of modern day Russia and Kazakhstan with the addition of Crimea and the Donestk so that the Sea of Azov becomes a Russian lake and there's a natural land bridge to...

Title. What would be the long-term ramifications of a Soviet-aligned Israel on the web of political alliances in the Middle East? How would the nascent Jewish state's alignment with the Soviet Union affect its public image in the West, and how would it reflect on Jewish politics in Israel as...

IOTL the Sino-Soviet split had a huge impact on the Cold War, with the USSR having to contend with dissent in their own corner (which they couldn't brush off as easily as Tito), and the US courting China to counter Soviet influence. But what if the split didn't happen, or was delayed at least...

So I stumbled upon this this interesting piece from RAND corporation about ethnic relations within the Soviet military. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2008/R2787.1.pdf As this was made back in 1982, they obviously cannot rely on hard data, and thus relied on tons of...

what if Anastas Mikoyan became premier of the soviet union? would he reform the USSR into semi capitalism? would the soviets avoid collapse? what would armenia be like? how would this alternate USSR and world develop?

So the way I understand it, Soviet armed forces were seeing some serious innovation as regards military theory during the 1920s-30s. Not only was the Red Army rapidly modernizing, Soviet commanders were also theorizing how to best make use of it, and they came up with Deep Operation/Deep Battle...

What would have happened to the Soviet Union had they not been able to retake Armenia AND Azerbaijan and consecutively WW2 and then the Cold War ?

I recently came across this althistory page: https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Russian_Confederated_Union_(Inverse_Spectrum:_Chaos_&_Resolve) In the post, the creator turned Vladivostok into "the world's most modernized city", and Vladivostok became one of the major tech hubs of the world...

The Marshall Plan aid was divided among the participant states roughly on a per capita basis. A larger amount was given to the major industrial powers, as the prevailing opinion was that their resuscitation was essential for the general European revival. Somewhat more aid per capita was also...

If the USSR and Poland, during the expulsion of the Germans from Pomerania and Silesia, decided to forcibly send all the expelled Germans to the Soviet Occupation Zone instead of allowing them to move to the Western Allied occupation zones preventing freedom of movement, as well as not allowing...

The Japanese empire does not invade French Indochina,they continue trade with America so it does not come to war and the U.S. remains isolationist.Japan defeats China and In Europe the allies still manage to win(I know I will start a war for this in the comments),the war,ends in 1948 and is...

The USSR as a whole didn't have an official official language, though Russian functioned as one in practice (the 'language of inter-ethnic communication' I believe they called it), but what if the Bolsheviks had been interested in Esperanto instead? Stalin was apparently learning the language...

Chapter One: Death of Lenin Born out of the ashes of the Russian Civil War in 1922, the Soviet Union was shaken by the Death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 that ended the federal Leninist one-party socialist republic under Lenin’s totalitarian dictatorship and left many to wonder, what would come...

There are decades where weeks happen and weeks where decades happen. -Vladimir Lenin. Workers of Finland, we have Victory! - Kullervo Manner 1918 Lithuania I shall return -Augustinas Voldemaras 1919 Poland yet lives! – Last words of Josef Piłsudski Warsaw 1920 Before a revolution happens, it...

(reviving an old thread) By the late 1950s to early 1960s (after the repatriation of ethnicities of the Caucasus that were deported to Siberia due to Stalin's orders), re-organize and re-draw the SSRs, Republics, Oblasts, Okrugs, and other divisions of the USSR to diminish ethnic tension the...