communism

During the OTL Cold War North Korea managed to play both China and U.S.S.R. against one another, receiving aid from both without committing itself to a fully to either. However, there were factions within North Korea that wanted to see the nation align with one of its bigger neighbors (I’ve...

Benito Mussolini: L'Unione Sindacalista Nazionalista - the Prinipate Chapter One: Idea di Rivoluzione The failure of the Socialist Revolution in Russia has shown us that we were wrong the nation has never disappeared. We used to believe that the concept was totally without substance. Instead...

Xiaoping's reforms set China on it's current path. Small Businesses were privatized and Agriculture collectivized and a certain percentage of crops sold to the government. Also SEZs were opened to Foreign Investment. State control became more autonomous and lower level officials given more...

What if there was no Marshall Plan? Say the isolationists win out in the US, or the idea is dismissed as too expensive? What would happen to europe be in this TL? How would the cold war go, if it happens at all?

As the title says, I'm interested in reading a Soviet-centric timeline with a PoD of Bukharin prevailing over Stalin, perhaps with ideas similar to those described in this post. Does such a TL exist? I know that A Day in July includes Bukharin within the collective leadership of the Muscovite...

How could all of Germany have gone communist? And how would this red Germany look like? The more different the ways to do it are, the better. Any POD is allowed.

There's an assumption on these boards that a scenario such as a failed D-Day, no American intervention in the European War, or white peace between Britain and Germany, would lead to the Red Army marching all the way into France. I wanted to test how plausible that assumption really is. For...

If Dewey had defeated Truman as expected and a Republican was in the White House in the early 1950s, would McCarthyism have still happened? Remember, if McCarthy wants to cry wolf about Communism in the State Department he'd be attacking a Republican President. Would McCarthy have tried to...

This would also require them winning their civil wars.

What if, instead of organizing a rag-tag group of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro, either Eisenhower or Kennedy recognizes the scheme won't work and they shut down the invasion plans? Would Castro still become a Communist and move into the Soviet sphere of influence? How would...

Okay, so I'm not suggesting that full-on "Communazism" would happen (although feel free to come up with something if you have an idea of how such a thing could happen), but what would be the closest that one could get to a major (preferably destructive) government that combines elements of both...

IOTL, one example of far-left resistance to the Brazilian military junta regime (1964-85) in the midst of the Cold War was the Araguaia Guerrilla, waged by the Brazilian Communist Party in parts of the modern states of Pará and Tocantins. The guerrilla was estabilished in a region the rebels...

MotF 185: The Bonnie Red Flag The Challenge Make a map depicting the outcome of a communist or socialist revolution in the Confederate States of America. The Restrictions For this round, the POD of your map must be between 1860 and 1865. Fantasy and science fiction maps are permitted as long...

With a POD no earlier than 1945, how to make leftist revolutions in the west possible? This means communists/socialists and other leftists take to the streets and actually overthrow the western capitalist states. This may be less implausible than one would think. During the late 60s to mid 70s...

To preface, I'm not sure if this was the best place to put this or not, so please do move it if it's not. Anywho, I'm hoping the lovely AH.com community would be willing and able to review some mock legislation I wrote up for a pet project of mine. The basic idea, as I've put out a few times on...

How would the Soviet Union develop politicially and militarily, if no WW2 happens? The (geo-)political situation: - Central Europe is ruled by a heavily armed militarist German state. This could be a military dictatorship that resulted from a Reichswehr coup. A Nazi state where Hitler died...

In his memoirs, Richard Nixon contended that had he won the 1960 election he wouldn't have been assassinated like JFK. But how true is this claim in reality? Kennedy was in Dallas on 11/22/63 to lay the groundwork for his 1964 re-election campaign, build up some Southern support for the Civil...

How to turn West Germany (the BRD) into a communist state with a POD after 1945? Bonus points if its Soviet-style communism. Double bonus points if it leads to a German re-unification under the DDR.

I was reading the excellent "Our Struggle" thread by The Red, when I pondered about how a conflict between a Communist Germany and Fascist Russia would have gone down. I also admitted that it was an idea I've always been interested in, and perhaps it could also be interesting if we assume that...

In 1935, a woman, the heiress of the Russian aristocratic family Orlova-Pavlova attempted to shoot Stalin, but she missed the target. Let's say her plan succeeds and Stalin is killed. What is the result?