Finland was a front window to the West because it was so small and techically a Baltic island from a military point of view. Communist takeover was also initially deemed like a foregone conclusion and thus it was not rushed. Then, after the Greek Civil War started, Stalin opted to maintain the...
This was true until the 1970s, until it no longer wasn't.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb285/doc02_I_ch3.pdf
By 1981 the Soviet General staff had concluded that nuclear use would be both catastrophic and counterproductive to combat operations in the European theater. The employment of...
Because their key industrial and agricultural land areas would not be occupied, massive amount of rolling stock would not be lost, there is no Caucasus front to support, and the smaller frontage against Austria-Hungary means a smaller wartime army = more men left at home for agricultural work.
No.
From the 1860s to the outbreak of OTL WW1, Russia was providing a significant share of imports to the global wheat trade.
This economically vital commerce went through the Black Sea, which is why the Russian Empire was so obsessed with controlling the Straits.
Russia failed to feed itself...
The most logical war plan of the Berlin-St.Petersburg coalition or "Willy and Nicky against the world" would certainly be to defeat Austria-Hungary first. The Austrian war planning would be hard-pressed to defend against such a formidable combination, so one could argue that whoever is in charge...
http://finland100.fi/2017/09/11/on-26-march-1917-the-first-socialist-led-government-in-the-world-started-to-rule-finland/
This site is full of useful articles to give you the overall picture. A short answer: no.
A Finnish Civil War of some sort stemming from the power vacuum in the country is...
But a truce at the Western Front would have significant consequences in Russia and the Grand Duchy as well. The OTL Finnish Civil War was caused by very specific chain of events, and such a major butterfly would reshuffle the situation quite a bit. For starters, the Petrograd Ingrian Finnish...
Get the reformist middle class on board again by giving the Duma and zemstvos genuine power. Instill a martial law to Grand Duchy of Finland to remove the terrorist safe haven from the outskirts of Petrograd. Offer a land reform to calm the Finns down.
Continue the Stolypin land reform plans...
Everyone attacking everyone else and burning their prewar armies and munition stockpiles down in the process.
Form follows function, but somehow I envision this war will feature less mud and more hills and mountains than the OTL 1914-18 slugfest.
The situation in occupied Eastern Europe is interesting.
Starting from North:
1. Murmansk is full of supplies, and Vikzhel (The executive committee of the All-Russian Union of Railwaymen) is still united and the de-facto kingmaker in the country.
2. The Senate declares itself as the highest...
Stay tuned.
Nah, stating something so obvious is not harsh at all.
As it is, I have a backlog of researched material that I'll compile into updates whenever there is time to do so. Summer months are thus more active than winters, on average.
He and his fellow republicans at Xiamen are smuggling in weapons from Japanese Taiwan, trying to figure out their next steps in a brand new post-Qing China.