Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-26536079-20161027231519/@comment-2236231-20180202000419

Researching OTL aside form Russia Communism; in regards to the Marxist branch, had supporters in Germany, Hungary, and the Netherlands and their was the Conspiracy of Equals. Though in regards to being a major world influence I do not think so off hand. If the Bolshevik Revolution failed it seems that Communism would have largely remained a central European ideology that had not yet been tested unless, for some reason, - ah, I've got an idea if you want Communism to take hold. Due to the revolution Communism was opposed strongly in Germany after WWI but with out the USSR it may have taken hold creating a Communist Germany post WWI or perhaps in some other country- but the conditions in Germany would be amp for that especially as an untested ideology that offered a solution to poverty (as in with out the USSR as a threat to the state). For details on Communism pre-Soviet Union one can look into the Second International, Austromarxism , and the International Working Union of Socialist Parties. Communism could take hold in central Europe still but it'd be (as with the example of Asutromarxism) different in some regard to mainstream Communism in OTL.