What if either the Tsar held onto power, or the Provisional Government were to defeat the Bolsheviks? Well, because there were a series of Revolutions, this would technically make this not being a revolution happening, but end in another victory.
Here are several scenarios. This scenario is very unlikely to happen. Because the Tsar would have to do quite a bit in order to stay in power. He would have to see the Duma through. Much like how a famous celebrity would do humanitarian work, Tsar Nicholas created the Duma to get the Populace on his side. But if he were actually serious on creating the Duma, he would've stayed in power for at least a few more decades, and making Russia more like a constitutional monarchy.
Tsar Nicholas would have to stay out of World War 1. Russia was in no fit state in participating in the war, why? Because Russia didn't have the resources as it depended heavily on agriculture and not much on anything else. In this scenario, Tsar Nicholas is still overthrown during the February Revolution, and the Provisional Government comes into power.
They would also have to stay out of the war in order to not cause any political uprisings, but let's say that they still fight in the war. In our reality, the war in Russia was unpopular and looked bad, one of the reasons why the Bolsheviks gained support from the Russian masses. During the October Revolution, when the Bolsheviks attacked Petrograd, but were defeated and Lenin was captured and then executed for his attempt to overthrow the Provisional Government.
If this happened, it is possible that Russia's history would be dramatically different the in our reality. As mentioned before, this wouldn't just change history for Russia, but other nations as well. In Europe, this would change history in some of the nations. First off the nations in Eastern Europe would be dramatically different as most of the Eastern European nations got reform from the Nazis by the Soviets in our reality, nations such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were formed because the Soviets liberated them from their Nazi captors.
Speaking of the Nazis, it is very difficult to say if they would ever rise to power in Germany. As the Nazi policies weren't just against Judaism and Slavic people, but also on the Soviets and Communism. The history of the United States wouldn't be too much changed. But what would be different is that it would never have the rivalry it had with Russia as it did in our reality. One of the reasons for that is because the Provisional Government was socialist, but unlike the Bolsheviks, they wouldn't be fanatically communist and consider nations run by Democracy as evil.
This also dramatically changes the history of China. Remove the Soviets, and Mao Tse Tung would never rise to power, and with it, Communism would never rise to power in China. So, maybe the Russian Revolution will still happen in some way. But it definitely could've ended with a different outcome. So that in itself can influence world history.
That is all I have to say on this page, what do you think the world would be if the Russian Revolution ended differently? Real History. Alternate History. What if? Recent blog posts Help. Explore Wikis Community Central. He was very nearly overthrown in a coup by rebellious coalition partners but he made his own luck, though, by a combination of ideological passion, ruthless pragmatism, unchecked bloodletting and the will to establish a dictatorship.
And sometimes, he just got plain lucky: On August 30, , he was shot while addressing a crowd of workers at a factory in Moscow. He survived by inches. Had any of these events foiled Lenin, our own times would be radically different. Without Lenin there would have been no Hitler. Hitler owed much of his rise to the support of conservative elites who feared a Bolshevik revolution on German soil and who believed that he alone could defeat Marxism.
And the rest of his radical programme was likewise justified by the threat of Leninist revolution. Without the Russian Revolution of , Hitler would likely have ended up painting postcards in one of the same flophouses where he started.
No Lenin, no Hitler — and the 20th century becomes unimaginable. Indeed, the very geography of our imagination becomes unimaginable. The East would look as different as the West. Mao, who received huge amounts of Soviet aid in the s, would not have conquered China, which might still be ruled by the family of Chiang Kai-shek.
The inspirations that illuminated the mountains of Cuba and the jungles of Vietnam would never have been. Kim Jong-un, pantomimic pastiche of Stalin, would not exist. There would have been no Cold War. The tournaments of power would likely have been just as vicious — just differently vicious.
The Russian Revolution mobilised a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fuelled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the three Abrahamic religions, the greatest millenarian rapture of human history. That virtuous idealism justified any monstrosity.
The Bolsheviks created the first professional revolutionaries, the first total police state, the first modern mass-mobilisation on behalf of class war against counterrevolution. Bolshevism was a mind-set, an idiosyncratic culture with an intolerant paranoid wordview obsessed with abstruse Marxist ideology.
It also gave birth to slave labour camps, economic catastrophe and untold psychological damage. These events are now so long ago that the horrors have been blurred and history forgotten; a glamorous glow of power and idealism lingers to intoxicate young voters disenchanted with the bland dithering of liberal capitalism.
And then there is Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union. Americans may have invented the internet, but they saw it decadently as a means of making money or naively as a magical click to freedom. The Russians, bred on Leninist cynicism, harnessed it to undermine American democracy.
Putin presents himself as a Tsar — and like any Tsar, he fears revolution above all else. That is why it is victory against Germany in , not the Bolshevik Revolution of that is the founding myth of Putinist Russia. Hence the irony that while the West has been discussing the revolution at length, Russia is largely pretending it never happened. You can manage them any time by clicking on the notification icon.
This section is about Living in UAE and essential information you cannot live without. By clicking below to sign up, you're agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Saturday, November 13, Opinion Op-Eds. All Sections. Astatue of Vladimir Lenin stands in the town of Uglich, kilometers miles north-east of Moscow, Russia.
The thousands of statues of Vladimir Lenin spread across the vast region bring to mind poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's ringing line of devotion: "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live. More From Op-Eds. US needs to recoup confidence and trust of allies. Are the EU and UK heading for a trade war?
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