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The problem with partitioning Afghanistan is that they'd lose a valuable buffer state that served their security needs respectively.

South Asians would also have to go through Afghanistan in order to reach Russian Central Asia though. I would predict that the South Asians that would have immigrated to Russia could range from ambitious entrepreneurs seeking to expand their business into the fertile non-communist Russian...

You might have a better chance of attracting Koreans to settle in Russia than South Asians, and there is already a precedent to Korean settlement in Russia. The Koryo-saram are basically Koreans that have assimilated into Russian society, and they could have been a major factor in the Russian...

If it was a White regime led by Kolchak, I would suspect that he might pull a Franco and stabilize Russia long enough to get its house back in order and try to attract foreign investors into the country. I could see the likes of Henry Ford being lured by greater profits into building an...

That is what I meant: STOLYPIN would have been the Father of Genuine Industrialization instead of STALIN.

Stolypin would have been credited with the title of Father of Genuine Industrialization instead of the Butcher of Katyn.

A surviving Stolypin would have ensured that Tsarist Russia would have been able to develop its economy at a steady pace, without the tragedy of WWI and the Russian Civil War. However, the idea of an intact Jewish population within the Russian Empire staying might be difficult, given the pogroms...

I was going to say that while Russia might not have industrialized quickly in a White victory as the OTL Soviet Union's quick industrialization, the main advantage that the White regime would have is that much of the people that would have died in the famine of the 1930s that was engineered by...