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  1. Could the USSR be saved with a POD after 1980?

    No, it could not. That USSR was on the brink of economic collapse by that time is only a half of the problem. The second half was that there were no people in power who could look at it critically, nobody who could steer the economic system onto a different direction. They - how do you say it...

  2. Balkanized Russia?

    Ok, I'll bite. First, you impression is thrice wrong (because it conflates non-contemporary elements, because it implies that our aristocracy was somehow of a different ethnic stock than its serfs, and because our expansion went more on the "We are the Borg" model). Second - yes, we could have...

  3. No Russian Time Of Troubles

    The effects would depend mostly on why exactly there was no Time of Troubles. Was there an unbroken line of succession to the Riurikovich line? (Through which one of Ivan the Terrible's sons? Ivan and Dimitri both had some chances of surviving, and Fyodor could sire a son). Or do you butterfly...

  4. An Age of Miracles: The Revival of Rhomanion

    OTL Russia had a surplus of land. This one, AFAIR, sorta stops at Yaik/Ural River, but includes what we consider now the Ukraine. So it did have all prerequisites for an early population boom in form of fertile land, it did not suffer population drain from slave raids - and people tend to take...

  5. Canal Through Russia and the Ukraine

    Er... depends on your definition of "channel". If you mean "a way to transport cargoes from Baltic to Black Sea by water", then it exists since 1952 (if I'm not mistaken), when Volga–Don Canal was built at last (you go from St-Peterburg to Volga by Mariinsk Canal System (1810), down the Volga...

  6. Heroic Age of Chemistry a generation earlier

    I begin to get the feeling that this could devolve into something like a white supremacist's wet dream: there are much more western Europeans and somewhat less... well, everybody else. A horrible thought: poison gas. Against "native uprisings". Or just to "cleanse the land from subhuman peoples...

  7. Heroic Age of Chemistry a generation earlier

    You'll get vitalism disproved (in chemistry) somewhat earlier. Not sure if that would mean much for philosophy. But fertilizer industry, vitamins - hell, you'll get sulfonamides by 1900! That will mean that countries that have both the technology and industry to use the technology will get huge...

  8. An Age of Miracles: The Revival of Rhomanion

    Actually it is Spanish historical film in Russian translation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirant_lo_Blanc_(film) , comp.to http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Византийская_принцесса . BTW, what inventions do you need to get authentic Russian names for? Maybe I'd be able to help?

  9. No St. Petersburg - alternate names for Russian cities along the Neva River

    It may well retain its historical Swedish name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyenschantz , which in Russian vernacular was mostly contracted to Канцы/Kantsy (sounds almost like Kontsy(the Ends)). If you mean an earlier POD, then Ust-Okhta (meaning Okhta Rivermouth). Or you can butterfly away...

  10. An Age of Miracles: The Revival of Rhomanion

    Russia is a LADY. No, really: in Russian, nouns have gender, and "Russia" is feminine.

  11. Other Potential Dynasties Taking Root in Russia

    How about this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Pozharsky ? A bit too honour-bound, but...

  12. AHC - Make Estonia a regional power

    The problem is, at its root, economic. You can't get a regional power (for any value of "regional" and "power") without a population base and/or trade. It's extremely hard to support a decent population on such a poor soil in a cold clime (there is a reason why Novgorod never amounted to much in...

  13. AHC: Theocratic Russia?

    Evidently my English is not as fluent as I thought. In this system tsar takes monastic vows _after_ he has children, immediately after the former Patriarch passes away. If he has no children at the moment... well, that's what younger branches of the family are for.

  14. AHC: Theocratic Russia?

    Easy. Start with this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Filaret_of_Moscow "From 1619 to 1633 there were two actual sovereigns, Tsar Michael and his father, the most holy Patriarch Filaret". Let him have the bright idea to make patriarchy de-facto hereditary: so after the death of...

  15. WI: Soviets adopt Latin alphabet

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinisation_(USSR) http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Русская_латиница And yes - this project was aborted in 1930, almost as soon as it began, but it did really exist as a parn of Latinization campaign. Later it turned other way around - they changed all Latninzed...

  16. Soviet Utopias or Dystopias.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_and_Boris_Strugatsky#Noon_Universe There are English translations of most of the Noon sequence. "Noon: 22nd Century" is what you're looking for. Later books are less optimistic. Also http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гость_из_бездны (there is no English version...

  17. A Progressive Russia

    Sorry. Internet jargon. :-) It means that his reign was one of the worst things that befell Russia in the long term exactly because it cut short the ongoing modernisation. A better bet would be Alexey I's eldest son, Tsarevich Alexei Alexeevich (1654–1670), surviving. Or Sophia's successful...

  18. A Progressive Russia

    They won't come. Because, really, you're trying to make every possible mistake and then some. No, you can't make Novgorod anything but a regional power. The best thing you can do with Peter I is to KILL IT WITH FIRE, preferably in the womb. And so on.

  19. New resource - Table of Translated Names

    In Russian column: Alphonsus - not used; as a noun corresponds to "gigolo" Florens - Flor Laurentius - Lavrentiy (as in Lavrentiy Beria) Patricius - Patrikey (very rare name) There is a mistake in John/Iohannes lines: male form is "Ivan", and female is NOT ever used in Muscovite names...

  20. New resource - Table of Translated Names

    Russian has one more form of "George": Yegor. Also, many of these names would be considered "foreign" and unsuitable for Russian people in pretty any pre-XX century timeline (if Russian is Orthodox, at least).
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