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Russia 1917 - Alternate history:

The idea of the original fanfiction .
I propose to write a script with the help of collective creativity.
I offer here only an outline of the political aspects without describing personal relationships.

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Deliberative group:

Petrograd, May 1917.
Eligible Party member SR (Socialist Revolutionaries) receives a mental message from the future.

The said Party member chooses the most unanimous deputy of the 1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies from the same party, meets and talks with him.
The member explains the threat of radicalization and polarization of society, the growing popularity of the Bolsheviks.
A member invites other SRs to meetings.
For several meetings, the participants in the meetings work out a speech for a deputy at the upcoming Congress of Soviets, conduct polls among soldiers and workers.
Polls show sentiments in favor of ending the war and establishing workers' control in the factories.

Peace Initiative:

The deputy speaks at the Congress.
He warns of the danger of civil war, shows the results of polls.
The deputy argues that the policy of "defencism" is not enough.
He proposes a plan:
1. Conclude a truce with the German government.
Reduce the army at the front by several times, organize the rotation of soldiers on the basis of long vacations.
2. Send a Representative to London with a proposal to the Government of the United Kingdom.
2 Representatives went to London on 2 airplanes via Sweden.

The representative in London handed over the letter and explained that the position of the soldiers and the population in Russia was more difficult than that of the Western Allies and Germany.
instability of the political situation. Significant inflation.
The representative said:
"Order No. 1 transferred power at the front to the soldiers.
If Russia does not conclude a temporary truce with Germany, then the Eastern Front will simply fall apart, and 55% of the troops of the Central Powers that are there now will go to the Western Front.
In the event of a truce, Germany will have to keep part of the troops in the East, and, in addition, help her allies.
The Russian government proposes to use the remaining forces to withdraw the Ottoman Empire from the war, thus defeating the Central Powers one by one.
Russia will announce the collection of the Southern Volunteer Army, with the help of which it will try to cut off the Ottoman Empire from its colonies, reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
Create and arm the Armenian, Pontic, Kurdish, Syrian and Jewish (Zionist) liberation armies.
But Britain will need help in supplying and financing the United Forces on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea due to its remoteness from Russia.
The promise to give soldiers who have reached Mersin or Latakia - 200 pounds sterling each will serve as a good incentive.
The issuance of British money in the Middle East will not increase inflation in the Metropolis, but will only strengthen the position of Great Britain there.
It is enough to allocate only a few ships for the transport of provisions, for example, from Egypt.
The support of British artillery ships on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean will also be needed.
After that, Russia will try to withdraw Bulgaria from the war, and then Austria-Hungary, using the national liberation movements in the Balkans."

It was only important to get consent from Britain - to a temporary truce, while a real truce could be much deeper.

The Orthodox Crusade is declared. -
The bloodthirsty are heading out of Russia.

"Land Law":

A “Land Law” is being developed, transferring land to peasants free of charge, providing for the procedure and procedure for dividing land, taxation depending on the fertility of plots and other characteristics of farms, especially since such a register was already made before the war.

"Law on workers' control in enterprises":

A "Law on workers' control in enterprises", profit sharing, and also taxation of enterprises is being developed.
The member explained that the nationalization of the "means of production" would require and bring about a dictatorship which is not in the interests of the workers. -
"The Bolsheviks, in order to seize power, use popular slogans, but a completely inadequate organization for the implementation of the latter ."
Instead of a centralized bureaucratic " Rabkrin " - workers are learning self-government and economics, including trade instead of food detachments.

Inflation is restrained - by taxes and the transfer of ministries to self-financing - budget expenditures are not allocated, but are credited - with a return - at a high percentage.
An interest-free loan with a repayment period - "after demobilization" is received only by military volunteers.

Turn off the pendulum. "Golden mean":

The tsarist regime squeezed the "spring" of popular discontent. That is, in the dictatorship of the communists, the courtiers themselves were guilty first of all.
When the "spring" finally broke, the process swept to the other extreme.
The best solution for Russia in 1917 was the preservation of the democratic trend that had developed by June 1917 - the 1st Congress of Soviets.

who were "nostalgic" for the "Union" fought against the Red Army (Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army) .
- The standard of living of workers with the advent of populist communists to power fell not by 3%, but by almost 3 times.

 

1916

1917

1918

Real wages of Russian workers, rub. (Prokopovich S.N.)

27.8

25.2

10.5

Anarchy arose in a bad sense - as in the 1990s, the Center cared only about retaining power.
However, instead of TV -demagogy, the Center used a fairly progressive ideology.

Alternate History Time Machine:

The diversity of the Universe exists due to insignificant violations of symmetry.
There are absolute laws of nature, and there are relative ones.
The absolute law is the prohibition of physical movement in time.
Relative - prohibition of information transfer.
The problem is compounded by the absence in the past of suitable structures for adequate reception of information.
Butterfly effect is added here - it is very difficult to calculate the reliability of the influence:
a . Reliability of influence - transfers;
b . Reliability of the influence result.
Influence is possible only in small doses - because of the difficulty and unreliability. Little by little, but often.

 

Historical reference:

Order No. 1:

On March 1 , the Petrosoviet adopted Order No. 1:
The order ordered the immediate creation of elected committees from representatives of the lower ranks in all military units, divisions and services, as well as on ships.
In all political speeches, military units were no longer subordinate to officers, but to their own elected committees and the Soviet . ( item 3)
All weapons are transferred to the disposal and control of the soldiers' committees.
The equality of the rights of the "lower ranks" with the rest of the citizens in political, general civil and private life was introduced, the titles of officers were abolished.
The order was issued in 9 million copies.

The Kronstadt Soviet, already on May 16, declares itself the only authority in the city, and demands the removal of the Commissioner of the Provisional Government V. N. Pepelyaev.
In addition, the Soviet continues to hold a number of officers arrested by the rebellious sailors during the February Revolution.

Radicalization of public opinion:

During the 8 months that the Provisional Government was in power, the ruble depreciated by about the same amount as during the previous 2.5 years of a difficult war.
Frequent interruptions in the supply of factories provoked their closures and strikes; the government also failed to cope with the mass squatting of land by the peasants.
The result was a rapid radicalization of public opinion, which became increasingly polarized and rejected moderate alternatives, leaning either towards the idea of a right-wing strong government or the Bolsheviks.

June 1917
The 1st machine-gun regiment, numbering up to 11,300 soldiers and 300 officers, and the Kronstadt naval base, which were under the influence of anarchists, were especially unreliable.
In the current situation, machine gunners and Kronstadt sailors become fertile ground for anarchist and Bolshevik agitation.
( ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_1917_in_Russia ) _

1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies:

was held from June 3 (16) to June 24 (July 7), 1917
The congress adopted SR-Menshevik resolutions proclaiming support for the socialist ministers and the continuation of the "revolutionary war" on the principles of refusing annexations and indemnities.
On June 18 (July 1), 1917, a mass demonstration organized by the Congress of Soviets took place in Petrograd on the Field of Mars.
However, contrary to the expectations of the organizers, who planned to hold a general political demonstration of confidence in the Provisional Government, the action, which was attended by about 500 thousand people, was held under the Bolshevik slogans "Down with ten capitalist ministers!", "It's time to end the war!", "All power to the Soviets !”, which testified to the gap between the mood of the masses of the capital and the policy of the Provisional Government and the leadership of the Soviets.
Numerous demonstrations of workers and soldiers under Bolshevik slogans also took place that day in Moscow, Kyiv, Kharkov, Minsk, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod and other cities.
(ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_All-Russian_Congress_of_Soviets_of_Workers_and_Soldiers_Deputies )

Romanian armistice 1917:

To raise the morale of the soldiers, legislative activity was resumed after the completion of the agrarian and electoral reforms.
The relevant constitutional amendments were adopted by Parliament, and King Ferdinand I personally promised the peasant soldiers land and the right to vote after the end of the war.
The heroism of the Romanian soldiers actually saved Romania from the withdrawal from the war
After the October Revolution, Russia withdrew from the war, and Romania was surrounded on all sides by the troops of the Central Powers. Therefore, on November 26 / December 9, 1917, the Romanian government concluded a truce in Focsani , and
on April 24 / May 7, 1918 - the Bucharest peace treaty.
However, after the defeat of the Central Powers at the end of 1918, Romania found itself on the side of the victorious Entente, which immediately demanded the abolition of the Treaty of Bucharest.
As a result, all the territories lost by Romania under this agreement were returned to it, in addition, Romania took possession of Transylvania and Bessarabia.
( ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_campaign_(1916-1917 ) ) _ _

Central Powers numbered divisions by September 1915

on the Russian front (without the Caucasian front)

107 infantry and 24 cavalry divisions

on the French front

90 infantry and one cavalry division

( www.dissercat.com/content/vklad-rossii-v-pobedu-nad-germanskim-blokom-v-pervuyu-mirovuyu-voinu-1914-1918-gg )

The total losses of the troops of the German bloc in battles with the Russian army at the end of 1917 amounted to more than 50% of their total losses.
(https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/o-poteryah-vooruzhennyh-sil-germanskogo-bloka-na-russkom-vostochnom-fronte-pervoy-mirovoy-voyny )

Prodrazverstka was not invented by the Bolsheviks:

Prices by 1916 increased by 2-3 times.
The governors' ban on the export of food from the provinces, the introduction of fixed prices, the distribution of cards and purchases by local authorities did not improve the situation.
At the end of 1916, the authorities, not daring to change, limited themselves to a plan of mass requisition of grain. The free purchase of bread was replaced by a surplus appraisal.
It was necessary to leave 1 pood of grain per capita on the farm until a new crop was harvested.
(https://rg.ru/2016/04/24/rodina-hleb.html )

 

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