Unsure Where to Put Proposed Thread?

Dang it. How about '20th Century People React To The Modern Internet' or something similar to that, then?

Thank you in advance,

Zyobot

  I think that might depend on how peaceful.  In term of no wars or only a few border conflicts I would agree that would be an ASB situation.  However with a butterfly or two you might avoid the two world wars of the 1st half of the 20thC.  Whether this would then avoid the other social turmoil, or still have the massive economic development of the 2nd half of the century could be more difficult to say however.  Plus sooner or later someone's going to let the nuclear genie out of the bottle.

  If you avoid or drastically shorten WWI then there's unlikely to be a Bolshevik coup, if you mean the so called October revolution.  If the regime doesn't loosen up over time there will be problems but how things work out would be difficult to say.  You might have prolonged repression, possibly including a military coup and dictatorship at some time, or slower social and political change.  Or depending on what's happening in Europe you could see someone, although it would probably have to be Germany - as their really the only ones with the location and power - fishing in troubled waters.  Given the Tsarevich's illness I doubt if he would reign long or at all so not sure who would be the effective ruler of Russia after Nicholas II departs.

  The easiest way to avoid the massive bloodbath of OTL would be to have WWI a few years earlier, say over one of the Moroccan crisis's.  With a less insane doctrine by the French and less advanced siege artillery the Germans are likely to make less progress in the west but, far more importantly, without the Haber process they can't manufacture modern explosives so within a year at most and probably less their forced to come to terms.  This would still be bloody and a shock to the established system, which could be a good wake up call and prompt for social reform as well as a deterrent to those who think war can be quick and easy, but wouldn't be as shattering.  The down side for this is that with the eastern empires surviving many people's would still be denied real liberty and rights.  However without Russia collapsing into a Bolshevik dictatorship Europe should be a lot more stable so probably a short and [compared to OTL] far less costly WWI could be followed by no WWII.  On the down side with longer domination by the western powers colonialism could last longer and be bloodier to terminate.