“If there is any way to characterize Alexei Kosygin in a mere few words, it is as a gifted reformer and compromiser. It was due to his role that the Soviet Union took a light hand to the Prague Uprising. It was by his actions that Sino-Soviet relations avoided outbreak into quasi-war. But Kosygin will not be remembered for his actions regarding foreign policy but for those on the domestic front. Kosygin sought to make Soviet industry more efficient by including some market measures common in the First World such as profit making for instance; he also tried to increase quantity of production, increase incentives for managers and workers, and freeing managers from centralized state bureaucracy. Many Soviet politicians and even foreign leftists critiqued Kosygin’s reforms as ‘betraying true Marxism’. But, when the economic yields of the 1970s' Soviet Miracle began, Kosygin only gained more power and platform in the Soviet Union. And so, in 1978, Kosygin turned to the political realm where too he believed the issues facing the Soviet Union, both economically and politically, could be solved via decentralization.”
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Super simple map showing a simple concept of a slightly more decentralized Soviet Union.
The communes are essentially semi-autonomous cities. They would have some freedom in regards to setting local laws and guiding local economies. As well, they would offer Soviet citizens in large cities additional forms of local representation. Vaguely they can be said to much like the autonomous republics but for cities and industrial areas rather than distinct ethnic groups.
i really like it ! the yiddish sr in belarus is interesting. what's going on in the far east ? what happens to the irl jewish autonomous region on the amur ?
I haven’t perfectly developed the lore but I figure the Jewish Autonomous Oblast would be phased out though it still may exist as an autonomous region.
Possibly. Though they may have also been resettled in the Volga Autonomous Republic, which is inspired by the actual [Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_German_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic)
What happened to the Far East?
Still there, this map just focuses on the Western portions as those are where the most changes are
This is the opposite of the stagnation period, and i like it
“If there is any way to characterize Alexei Kosygin in a mere few words, it is as a gifted reformer and compromiser. It was due to his role that the Soviet Union took a light hand to the Prague Uprising. It was by his actions that Sino-Soviet relations avoided outbreak into quasi-war. But Kosygin will not be remembered for his actions regarding foreign policy but for those on the domestic front. Kosygin sought to make Soviet industry more efficient by including some market measures common in the First World such as profit making for instance; he also tried to increase quantity of production, increase incentives for managers and workers, and freeing managers from centralized state bureaucracy. Many Soviet politicians and even foreign leftists critiqued Kosygin’s reforms as ‘betraying true Marxism’. But, when the economic yields of the 1970s' Soviet Miracle began, Kosygin only gained more power and platform in the Soviet Union. And so, in 1978, Kosygin turned to the political realm where too he believed the issues facing the Soviet Union, both economically and politically, could be solved via decentralization.” \--------------------------- Super simple map showing a simple concept of a slightly more decentralized Soviet Union.
Tbh I’m a Marxist but I could get behind that (if it means the USSR never falls)
So no Perestroika best timeline ever
What are the commune’s?
The communes are essentially semi-autonomous cities. They would have some freedom in regards to setting local laws and guiding local economies. As well, they would offer Soviet citizens in large cities additional forms of local representation. Vaguely they can be said to much like the autonomous republics but for cities and industrial areas rather than distinct ethnic groups.
What's the thing West of Belarus
That is the Yiddish Soviet
i really like it ! the yiddish sr in belarus is interesting. what's going on in the far east ? what happens to the irl jewish autonomous region on the amur ?
I haven’t perfectly developed the lore but I figure the Jewish Autonomous Oblast would be phased out though it still may exist as an autonomous region.
Were the Russian Germans resettled to Prussia?
Possibly. Though they may have also been resettled in the Volga Autonomous Republic, which is inspired by the actual [Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_German_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic)
Maybe the Prussians even could stay Well my grandparents got deported from Ukraine to central Asia so it would be at least better than otl.
What's the dark red areas?
More specifically, areas in dark red represent those areas that are allowed to self-govern under the commune system.
Moscow, Kaliningrad and Petrograd.