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  1. Leonid Brezhnev dies earlier in 1975/1977, how does this change the USSR and the world?

    With what standards of labour unrest and indiscipline? Italian? French? English? German? Swedish? Japanese? Any increase in labour productivity, combined with more collective labour unrest might save the Soviet Union from its own ruling class.

  2. The Prague Spring endures?

    In '56 it was Mikoyan. Six years later he was shooting Soviet strikers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre There's always someone speaking against. Usually they're earnest and real about it, and believe it to be in the best interests of the power of the party. yours, Sam R.

  3. Let's play: Master and Servants, the salvation of the USSR in the Kyivian Божевільний замок sound

    Detroit and Chicago were economic backwaters with internal ethno-national issues. Manchester was an economic backwater with internal ethno-cultural issues. Kyiv was an economic backwater with internal national-cultural issues. All were working class communities facing the collapse of...

  4. The Prague Spring endures?

    Historically the action plan fraction of the Czechoslovakian party didn't determine the historical outcome: in a brutal way the leadership of the Soviet Union did with force. In a more local sense the action plan fraction of the Czechoslovakian party theses in the action plan that the social...

  5. What if Yul Brynner starred in the Grand Guignol ABBA Cold War Opera: Chess

    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble. I can feel the devil walking up on me. Historically ABBA's remnants created a Synth Pop opera "Chess." Chess was partly London, partly New York, partly Operettists, partly ABBA, partly Cold War, partly concept. Partly. Let us make it whole...

  6. The Prague Spring endures?

    Kadar risked his balls for Hungary and lost them. He risked his neck for Hungary after '56 in an incredibly long planned gambit to deStalinise after the triumph of Stalinism. Kadar knows the risk, but he's already risked it for Hungary. And a Soviet PC that is sensible enough to listen to...

  7. DIXIE GOES DOWN!

    Mid 70s right? Melvin Van Peebles looks available to direct but not write.

  8. The Prague Spring endures?

    It’s always the invasion. It’s interesting to me that the secondary party line always has someone sensible saying an invasion is fucking idiocy and they’re never listened to.

  9. The Prague Spring endures?

    I’ve just located an English translation of the action plan on marxists internet archive. The fraction of the party supporting the action plan obviously wasn’t historically determinate in real life so a future post will analyse the action plan and it’s reception. However for now there’s some...

  10. AHC: A country enacts female-biased immigration.

    What is gulf states servitude? OTL for $200?

  11. What if Britain became communist before WW1

    The Tories rename themselves as communalists?

  12. what if Pro Wrestling is real

    But professional wrestling is already Real in that it caters to psychological needs to enact drama and Real-ise terrors and horrors that aren’t just unspoken but are incapable of being voiced in language. That’s a really strong social desire: we put on Medea so nobody has to kill her kids when...

  13. Spain's revolution succeeds (c18/c19)

    I was really surprised it didn’t cite CLR James or Federici. Especially when it’s claim that proletarian innovation was central to mechanisation. In any case both the liberal Spanish peripheral revolutions and the case studies of the English periphery give me cause to believe that proletarian...

  14. AHC: better behaved Red Army

    And too fucking tired. Rear troops haven’t seen their blood and the blood of the men they have killed and thus have a guilt that seeks to be expunged. The book ordinary men is the standard reference. On killing and it’s bibliography. For US pacific forces front line troops traded trophies in...

  15. Spain's revolution succeeds (c18/c19)

    Either situation, but where Spain (including the across the oceans economic periphery) fully explores the themes emergent in the Spanish economy/society of the Spanish revolutionary impulses themselves. If there's a French revolution it can't over-determine themes arising inside the Spanish...

  16. How long can Decolonization be delayed?

    I was thinking HRH, and the Malay and Indian states. Becoming Empress by personal love, not parliament and the company's violence. But as long as Malay and Indian princes will accept Brigertons as sufficiently sexy to form coordinated state unions.

  17. How long can Decolonization be delayed?

    Imagine if Victoria had sufficient children to unite with all Princely states? Isn't this turbo Hapsburg?

  18. Spain's revolution succeeds (c18/c19)

    I'm predominantly a c20 historian of labour history, and as a result incidentally of world-systems / imperialism. But Imperialism as a world-system chains back before the 20th century, and Sharpe's Rifles' episode one inspired this thought, as the two brother fight over Spain. Spain did have a...

  19. How long can Decolonization be delayed?

    The USSR wasn't seriously contesting colonialism, especially not internally. But the very processes of imperialism produced classes and castes that generated people who would contest colonialism; and, they produced population booms and a bias towards a moment when well organised light infantry...

  20. Could the US have a strong Communist Party as the opposition?

    The difficulty for me is not just an increase in left politics, (coherent IWW organisational reproduction into the 1920s?); but, is to get a situation where a left is impotent enough to not be destroyed, but potent enough to be the largest party of non-government?
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