History VideoGame / RedFlood

## Due to Stolypin's survival and his much more drastic reforms, Russian Empire was able to outlive Germany and win World War One, but the physically weak Alexei II's death and Stolypin's assasination plunged the country into a civil war between Republicans and Monarchists, while Poland, Caucasus and Turkestan rebelled. In the end, the former were exiled to Georgia and Russian Manchuria, while the latter invited Kolchak to stabilize weakened country that lost their authority over most of its subjects.

** When the Japanese Civil War breaks out, the Indochinese Revolution becomes a two-front war for the occupying Japanese forces against North and South troops. Once they've been kicked out, both the North and South regimes break into a civil war against one another just like they once did in our timeline, though a decade early.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]]. The original ''Red Flood'' event in ''Kaiserreich'' depicted Alexander Kolchak as an ultranationalist (which is not quite accurate to the real-life Kolchak, who was essentially an apolitical military man). In the mod proper however Kolchak is classified as Polyarchy, which is usually the classification given to moderate or ideologically neutral dictatorships.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Zigzagged with Accelerationism generally. The developers have gone out of their way to clarify that thinking of Accelerationism as just the setting's equivalent of Nazism is a trap, and that Accelerationists, whether right or left, are better thought of as representing revolutionary ideologies and attempts to discard old thinking gone wild, [[WellIntentionedExtremist pushing ahead to live in the future regardless of the human or moral cost]]. Additionally, while Accelerationism is a pretty broad ideology and there are definitely some pretty chauvinistic or supremacist strains of it, bigotry and hateful discrimination are much more closely and universally associated with Reactionarism than with Accelerationism. But with all of that said, Accelerationism ''is'' still, at the end of the day, a revolutionary, generally nationalist, generally militaristic ideology that wants to forge a new future for the world through war, blood, and conquest... and even if they're trying to hearken to the symbol's spiritual roots in the process, its proponents sure do love plastering swastikas on their flags.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Zigzagged with Accelerationism generally. The developers have gone out of their way to clarify that thinking of Accelerationism as just the setting's equivalent of Nazism is a trap, and that Accelerationists, whether right or left, are better thought of as representing revolutionary ideologies and attempts to discard old thinking gone wild, [[WellIntentionedExtremist attempting to live in the future regardless of the human or moral cost]]. Additionally, while Accelerationism is a pretty broad ideology and there are definitely some pretty chauvinistic or supremacist strains of it, bigotry and hateful discrimination are much more closely and universally associated with Reactionarism than with Accelerationism. But with all of that said, Accelerationism ''is'' still, at the end of the day, a revolutionary, generally nationalist, generally militaristic ideology that wants to forge a new future for the world through war, blood, and conquest... and even if they're trying to hearken to the symbols spiritual roots in the process, its proponents sure do love plastering swastikas on their flags.

* ForWantOfANail: The POD is that during the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was hit and turned starboard, as in the OTL. However, seeing this, Tōgō Heihachirō has concluded that the Russian fleet is retreating (Suvorov was the flagship) and ordered a turn to port to cut off their presumable path. This was an error that gave the Russian fleet an opportunity to actually withdraw, making the Battle of Tsushima much less disastrous. The Japanese fleet then blockaded Vladivostok, and Nicholas II ordered a simultaneous deblockade of Vladivostok and an assault near Siping. This meant the Russo-Japanese War was a pyrrhic victory, rather than an embarrassing defeat, for the Russian side, and eventually led to the "no clear winner" board state after [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI WW1]].

* TheAlliance: The mod starts with the existing alliances of the Rotfront(made up of the socialist countries of Germany, Hungary, and Denmark), the Commonwealth of Nations (consisting of the United Kingdom and all of her colonies, most prominently Canada and Australia), and the League Solar (an alliance of Accelerationist nations made up of Avant-Garde France and Fiume).

## In the aftermath of the Great War, the Spartacist Revolt in Germany succeeded and started many socialist revolutions in Central and Northern Europe. Meanwhile France collapsed into anarchy and went through periods of unstable anti-socialist Fourth Republic and a monarchy restoration attempt before succumbing to a rising Futurist movement.

## Tsarism was able to survive the Russian Revolution, but the physically and politically weak Alexei II became a puppet of Kolchak, who set himself up as the military dictator of Russia while much of the country devolved into warlordism.

## In the aftermath of the Great War, France collapsed into CivilWar while the Sparticist Revolt in Germany succeeded, resulting in the two nations going Futurist and Communist, respectively.