World Revolution

The United Front is a timeline where the Russian Civil War occurs on a smaller scale due to a United Front between the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, and Socialist-Revolutionaries. This sets a precedent for other united fronts and coalitions across the globe.

1910-1920

 * 1914 - The majority of the SRs under Viktor Chernov come out against the war and attend the Zimmerwald Conference with Lenin. Jean Jaures also survives his assassination and subsequently leads the SFIO into an anti-militarist stance. In response, Leon Blum and several other more rightist members of the SFIO form the pro-war Union of Socialist Patriots or UPS, which would be the majority of SFIO elected officials but only a fraction of the actual party.
 * 1917 - The Kaiser decides not to renew unrestricted submarine warfare and keeps the Americans out of the war, although still hostile. The February Revolution topples the Tsar and elections are held, leading to the SRs sweeping the rural areas while the Bolsheviks sweep the cities. Workers take to the streets and peasants begin attacking their landlords as the soviets and zemstvos (rural councils) take control of the country. This is known as October Spring. The new government, the Russian Democratic Federative Republic, signs a peace with the Germans. The SFIO, USPD, and PSI become supportive of this revolution and begin destabilizing their respective countries.
 * 1918 - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk deeply angers nationalist elements as well as the entente, who back several Counter-Revolutionary Uprisings which all ultimately fail due to lack of popular support. Germany's securing peace in the east leads to them sending more troops to the east in order to rebuff their lines. The German Spring Offensive is more successful due to an influx of supplies from the resolved east leads to a German breakthrough. French soldiers mutiny en masse as the SFIO stages larger and larger strikes in order to end the war. Ferdinand Foch is forced to divert some of his loyal forces to Paris in order to quell the burgeoning worker's uprising and thus cannot execute his war-winning offensive of our timeline. Georges Clemenceau, increasingly afraid of socialist revolution and wary of the example set by Russia, decides to sign an armistice with the Germans, who are also war-weary and experiencing a worker's revolt. The British are deeply angered, backing Ferdinand Foch and Philippe Petain to take control of the government and continue the prosecution of the war. This only results in a more intense worker's uprising culminating in the November Revolution and the beginning of the French Civil War. The United Kingdom intervenes on the side of the whites while Germany supports the reds. Italy, although victorious in the battle of Vittorio Veneto, would quickly lose faith in the allied cause in order to avoid being drawn into the war in France and risk a socialist revolution at home. They would agree to a treaty with Germany and the very unstable Austria agreeing to give Italy the land of Tyrol and Istria.
 * 1919 - With the november revolution in France, the french sections of the OETA in the middle east collapse. Unable to properly implement the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Britain decides to fulfill their promises made to Hashemite rule Faisal and hands over what would be French Syria as well as Transjordan in order to free up forces for the intervention in France. In Italy, the 1919 election leads to the socialists securing victory. The PSI launches a full-scale revolution in Italy as Italian Libya falls to the Senussi and Eritrea falling to Ethiopia while Britain would occupy Somalia. A general strike occurs in Spain.
 * 1920 - The forces of the nascent French Socialist Republic come to occupy most of the mainland with support from the Italians. The British and Germans finally agree to an armistice which satisfies neither side fully as both recognize the threat of socialist revolution.