Edward's World

This is actually dedicated to my partner. He's a member of the Australian Socialist Party, loves Austria and Central Europe and quite enjoys Russia. He's not so fond of the US, is rather less enthusiastic about the British Empire or India than I am and makes a lot of jokes about Hitler. I quite like him, in short. So in making this map, I thought, what the fuck can I do with his strange proclivities? And here we are.

The POD is that the revolutionaries reject the October Manifesto as propagandist nonsense that doesn't actually guarantee their rights. A full blown revolution, albeit disorganised, breaks out, and in the mess it is republicans that succeed in drawing the largest support. Erstwhile, Germany takes this opportunity to independently throw it's weight against France, figuring that there's no better opportunity to do so with Russia falling apart. This, ultimately draws in Britain, Bulgaria, Turkey, Austro-Hungary, The Low Countries, Romania, Portugal in, and this is added to by a late entry by Italy and funnily enough, Spain. But not America, of whom are struggling with an internal conflict whereby workers have a much more violent -if latent- reaction, egged on by the violence in Europe, to the repeal of the 8-hour-day law in New York that eventually extrapolates across the Atlantic coast and industrial areas.
Without US intervention the war drags on from 1906 to 1911, when a Russia that has finally sorted itself out -despite losing Poland and some other areas it would later regain- leaps on a relatively stalemated Central Powers in an unexpected, near simultaneous attack on Constantinople, Konigsberg and whatever the most important city in Galicia is.
Due to their embitterment, the Entente and Russia essentially dice and splice Germany into several component states in punishment. Though this will have terrible affects later on.

Due to the war dragging on so long, the economies of many a nation are drained, much infrastructure is destroyed and by splintering Germany it become near impossible to repay debts through the various new and penniless countries that formerly made up the German Empire. France manages to avoid this by doing the sensible thing and withdrawing into itself, forgiving certain debts and industrialising their colonies, turning their prestige prizes into actually functional parts of the economy. Britain, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal have revolutions, Bulgaria despite being beaten in the Great War manages to form Jugorussia, Italy's fascist party is emboldened and Prussia invariably collapses under the weight of war reparations. 

History happens, more details I'll ad later, and here we have what is today. 1960.