What if the Russian Empire won the First World War?
The Russian Empire took part in the First World War as part of the Entente. As you know, the victory turned out to be on the side of “Cardiac consent”, but our country was not in the camp of winners for a number of reasons. And what could have happened if Victoria had happened before the events of February and October 1917?
It is believed that one of the reasons for the creation of the Third Reich was the humiliating Treaty of Versailles, signed under the dictation of London and Paris. The winners divided the German Empire, dividing its territory equal to 70 thousand square kilometers with a population of 5,5 million people, between its neighbors, its colonies were also taken away. Colossal indemnities were posted on Berlin, declared responsible for the outbreak of the First World War. The armed forces of the Weimar Republic were limited to symbolic proportions. The nation of poets and dreamers was shocked and humiliated.
All this later gave the opportunity to come to power one Austrian corporal with a mustache with the ideas of revenge of the German Empire. Perhaps if the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were milder, then the history of defeated Germany could have gone a different way. If you imagine that the Russian Empire would be officially among the winners, then “Nikki” could well have patted the Allies for “cousin Willy”.
According to agreements with the UK and France, Constantinople was to go to Russia as a military prize. True, no one would bring it to our country on a silver platter, all the problems of its capture and retention would completely lie on the shoulders of the Russian Empire. The control gained on the Bosphorus and Dardanelles would have allowed to increase the export of bread to Europe, however, this would have had a very difficult effect on the already impoverished Russian peasantry. The Russian Black Sea Fleet would gain access to the Mediterranean Sea, but this would mean the beginning of a confrontation with yesterday's allies in the person of Great Britain and France, and not the fact that destroyed by the war economy The Russian Empire would have pulled it.
The map of Europe would also change. Austria-Hungary would most likely disintegrate like the patchwork she was. In its place, the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav federations would have formed under the protectorate of Russia. The East Prussia Romanovs could be annexed to their Poland. However, this strengthening of the Russian Empire in the Old World would be an additional reason for the aggravation of relations with the countries of Western Europe.
Within the Russian Empire, the transition to a constitutional monarchy would continue. The bourgeoisie, who had grown rich on military orders, would have controlled the State Duma and the cabinet, gradually turning the emperor’s figure into a decorative one. The integration of the Russian oligarchy into the global financial system would certainly lead to its subordination to large Western capital. At the same time, the already brutal exploitation of the Russian peasantry and the proletariat would intensify.
Thus, with the general external prosperity of the Russian Empire as one of the winners of the First World War, the prerequisites for revolutionary events in it did not disappear, and they would have appeared a little later.
It is believed that one of the reasons for the creation of the Third Reich was the humiliating Treaty of Versailles, signed under the dictation of London and Paris. The winners divided the German Empire, dividing its territory equal to 70 thousand square kilometers with a population of 5,5 million people, between its neighbors, its colonies were also taken away. Colossal indemnities were posted on Berlin, declared responsible for the outbreak of the First World War. The armed forces of the Weimar Republic were limited to symbolic proportions. The nation of poets and dreamers was shocked and humiliated.
All this later gave the opportunity to come to power one Austrian corporal with a mustache with the ideas of revenge of the German Empire. Perhaps if the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were milder, then the history of defeated Germany could have gone a different way. If you imagine that the Russian Empire would be officially among the winners, then “Nikki” could well have patted the Allies for “cousin Willy”.
According to agreements with the UK and France, Constantinople was to go to Russia as a military prize. True, no one would bring it to our country on a silver platter, all the problems of its capture and retention would completely lie on the shoulders of the Russian Empire. The control gained on the Bosphorus and Dardanelles would have allowed to increase the export of bread to Europe, however, this would have had a very difficult effect on the already impoverished Russian peasantry. The Russian Black Sea Fleet would gain access to the Mediterranean Sea, but this would mean the beginning of a confrontation with yesterday's allies in the person of Great Britain and France, and not the fact that destroyed by the war economy The Russian Empire would have pulled it.
The map of Europe would also change. Austria-Hungary would most likely disintegrate like the patchwork she was. In its place, the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav federations would have formed under the protectorate of Russia. The East Prussia Romanovs could be annexed to their Poland. However, this strengthening of the Russian Empire in the Old World would be an additional reason for the aggravation of relations with the countries of Western Europe.
Within the Russian Empire, the transition to a constitutional monarchy would continue. The bourgeoisie, who had grown rich on military orders, would have controlled the State Duma and the cabinet, gradually turning the emperor’s figure into a decorative one. The integration of the Russian oligarchy into the global financial system would certainly lead to its subordination to large Western capital. At the same time, the already brutal exploitation of the Russian peasantry and the proletariat would intensify.
Thus, with the general external prosperity of the Russian Empire as one of the winners of the First World War, the prerequisites for revolutionary events in it did not disappear, and they would have appeared a little later.
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