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Russia

Russian Republic

^{Flag of the Russian Socialist Republic}

^{Flag of the United Soviet Socialist Republic}

^{Flag of the Russian Socialist Workers' Union}

^{Flag of the Socialist Workers' Union of the World}

^{Flag of the Proletarian Republic (Mayakovsky)}

^{Flag of the Combined Syndicates of Russia}

^{Flag of the Proletarian Republic (Lunacharsky)}

^{Flag of the Russian Socialist Republic (Molotov)}

^{Flag of the Russian Socialist Republic (Yezhov)}

^{Flag of the Tsentrobalt Dictatorship}

^{Flag of the Free Territory of Russia}

^{Flag of the Russian Empire (Drozdovsky)}

^{Flag of the Russian State}

^{Flag of the Russian Peasants' Republic}

^{Flag of the Grand Orda of the Russo-Skythians}

^{Flag of the Russian Empire (Black Hundreds)}

^{Flag of the Eurasian Union}

^{Flag of the Eurasian Empire}

^{Flag of the Eurasian State}

Official Name: Russian Democratic Federative Republic, United Soviet Socialist Republic (Zhdanov), Russian Socialist Workers' Union / Socialist Workers' Union of the World (Tukhachevsky), Proletarian Republic (Mayakovsky or Lunacharsky), Combined Syndicates of Russia (Gastev), Free Territory of Russia (Anarcho-Communist), Russian Peasants' Republic (Gorgulov), State of Holy Rus (Patriarch Kirill), Eurasian Union (Orthodox Eurasianist), Eurasian Empire (Orthodox Eurasianist, Tsar Andrei crowned), Eurasian Socialist Union (Mirsky), Eurasian National Republic (Shirinsky-Shikhmatov), Eurasian State (Gumilyov), Ulus of Muscovy (Golden Horde puppet)

Ideology: Liberal Narodism^note Social Liberalism

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Russia in 1936 is very similar to real life Weimar Germany, an unstable republic hastily built in the wake of a failed socialist revolution following a catastrophic defeat in the First World War.
• Balkanize Me: In addition to being forced to recognise the independence of various nations as detailed in the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, Russia further lost territory to various warlord states in the North Caucasus, Central Asia and the Far East in the 20s, while the Alash Orda in Kazakhstan reluctantly accepted a status of autonomy and usually declares independence from Petrograd after Kerensky's assassination. Depending on how events transpire, it is further possible for some of Russia's ethnic minorities (Tatars, Karelians, Bashkirs, Buryats, Mari, Udmurts, Yakuts and Volga Germans) to become independent as well.
• Civil War: There are numerous ways for Russia to fall into a second civil war between the Whites ruling in Moscow, the resurgent Reds, and/or the rival governments in Vladivostok, Rostov and Yekaterinodar. Boris Savinkov's path in particular can lead to a 5-way civil war, to say nothing of outsiders who can intervene.
• Defector from Decadence: After the Bolsheviks lost the Civil War and fled to the Commune of France, a split developed between Lenin's successor Grigory Zinoviev, who remained loyal to the dictatorship of the party, and the right-wing of the party, who relied on the support of the peasantry and supported a slow transition to socialism. In 1921, Nikolai Bukharin, Alexey Rykov and their loyalists split from the party, publicly disavowed their former comrades, and made an arrangement with Kerensky's government to return to Russia, where they formed the People's Socialist Party.
• Enemy Mine: In 1926, the anarcho-syndicalist Left Socialist Revolutionaries joined Boris Savinkov's right-wing coalition. Savinkov wished to attract as many former SRs as possible to his side, while Spiridonova wanted a platform to promote her ideas in parliament and among the population. The coalition collapsed in 1927, having existed for only a year.
• The Pardon: After the Civil War, unlike the Bolsheviks, the Left Socialist Revolutionaries didn't get banned and their members were given amnesties, since Kerensky didn't see them as opponents.
• Puppet State: If Russia is conquered by the Golden Horde, they restore the Ulus of Muscovy and put on the throne Prince Felix Yusupov, a descendant of Genghis Khan, who will have to swear eternal loyalty to the Khan of Kazan.
• The Purge: Georgy Blagonravov and Nikolay Krestinsky, after taking power, will conduct a mass purge of their rivals: the Right Opposition, the Zinovievites and the Proletkultists.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If Georgy Blagonravov seizes power in the aftermath of the Bolsheviks' return to Russia, Milyukov, Maklakov, Nabokov, Shulgin and Trubetzkoy will flee abroad to avoid being put on trial, and are subsequently sentenced to death in absentia.
• Suddenly Significant City: If the Eurasianists take power, they can move the capital to Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg or Novosibirsk, so it would be closer to Asia.
• Voluntary Vassal: If Russia proper goes socialist, most of Russia's breakaway states have the option to rejoin it if they also go socialist, either becoming a puppet or being outright annexed.

Alexander Kerensky

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^{Dictator portrait}

^{Glasses portrait}

^{Stare portrait}

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Liberal Narodism^note Social Liberalism

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• 0% Approval Rating: Disliked by almost all political groups in Russia for the degrading economy and inefficient foreign policy under his rule. By 1936, he's only staying in power because he's seen as the lesser evil by many of the country's disparate political factions, compared to one of their more intense rivals taking over.
• Allohistorical Allusion: After the Civil War, his New Economic Policy helped the country's economy recover and even modernise to an extent (though by 1936, the economy is struggling once again). In real life, the NEP was put in place by Lenin and the Bolsheviks after they won the Civil War, with the goal of easing some of the damaging economic restrictions put in place by their previous war communism policy.
• Better the Devil You Know: Even if the recent history of Russia is filled with bloodshed wrought by the hands of the Germans, Kerensky will reopen diplomatic channels to Germany—better a devil you know than a new fiend you have no experience with.
• Emergency Authority: If he survives his assassination, Kerensky will declare a state of emergency, granting him special powers to do anything when it comes to the government matters.
• Foreshadowing: One of the loading tips is a quote from Kerensky, claiming that his reign shall end only by constitutional decree, or a bullet. Six days into the game, Kerensky is assassinated.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Kerensky's assassination essentially kicks off the game for Russia and leads to all of its numerous political paths forward.
• President for Life: By 1936, Kerensky has been President of Russia for 15 years, due to a lack of competent opposition, plenty of political manipulation, fearmongering over the everpresent Kolchak threat, and often just downright luck. He declares he will only leave feet first, and somebody takes him at his word.
• The Purge: If he survives his assassination, Kerensky bans the NSP and NRPR, arrests Nikolai Bukharin and Boris Savinkov, and begins a witch hunt against the remaining radicals that continue to hide in the shadows.
• Rightful King Returns: After the Civil War, he was restored in his power as the president of the Russian Republic.
• Tempting Fate: Kerensky claimed that his reign shall end only by constitutional decree, or a bullet. His death by gunshot is one of the first scripted events in Kaiserredux.
• Vetinari Job Security: Kerensky was neither popular nor especially good as President, but he was the one candidate everyone could agree on hating the least. Well, almost everyone, anyway...
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Kerensky gets killed in the first week of the game.

Irakli Tsereteli

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social Democracy

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• Internal Reformist: Tsereteli's Mensheviks admire Western democratic socialism and hope to peacefully and legally bring forth socialism in Russia.

Aleksandr Yegorov

Role: Head of State

Party: Yegorov's Administration

Ideology: Socialist Junta^note Radical Socialism

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Maria Spiridonova

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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• Red Baron: Spiridonova is also known as the Valkyrie of the Russian Revolution by some newspapers and politicians.

Yakov Fishman

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Socialist Security State^note Totalism

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• The Coup: If the Left SRs decide to abolish the Cheka, Fishman launches a Chekist coup, believing that the Party has been corrupted by reactionaries.
• The Man Behind the Man: After his coup, instead of ruling directly, Fishman forms a shadow government that controls a rubber-stamping Supreme Soviet, whose decisions are all approved by Fishman.
• Pragmatic Hero: Fishman views measures such as terror and conscription to be a necessary trial in the World Revolution against the international bourgeoisie.

Georgy Zhukov

^{Marshall Zhukov}

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Red Junta^note Totalism

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• Cincinnatus: Some time after restoring socialism in Russia, Zhukov has the choice to invite the exiled Bolsheviks back home and hand power to them.
• Conscription: Zhukov issues higher conscription quotas and lowers the bar for volunteers and conscripts.
• Cult of Personality: Zhukov builds a cult of personality around himself: without him, the Russian Socialist Republic wouldn't exist. The Marshall of Victory has lead Russia to achieve final victory over the internal bourgeoisie in a glorious revolution, and he shall lead the proletariat to finally triumph over the imperialist scum of the world.
• The Gulag: Zhukov sends prisoners into labour camps where they are forced to work for the Motherland.
• Military Coup: Zhukov can restore socialism to Russia by leading Red Army remnants in a coup against Lavr Kornilov.
• The Political Officer: Zhukov establishes revolutionary commissars within the dictatorship of the Red Army to keep the flame of revolution lit.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Red Junta^note Totalism

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• Red Baron: Tukhachevsky is known as the Red Napoleon, one of the best military commanders of the Russian Socialist Republic.
• War Hawk: Tukhachevsky seeks to build an International Army and spread the revolution across the entire world.

Mikhail Frunze

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Red Junta^note Totalism

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• The Assimilator: Frunze declares all national and ethnic cultural diversity to be bourgeois, and launches a Cultural Revolution for the purpose of forming a new, homogenous Soviet proletarian culture.
• Commie Nazis: Chairman Frunze is a Russian chauvinist who wishes to assimilate all minorities in Russia into a new so-called 'Soviet' Russian culture.

Grigory Zinoviev

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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• Cult of Personality: Zinoviev creates a cult of Lenin, founder of the Bolsheviks, and himself, the successor of Lenin who never abandoned the party, not even after the Bolsheviks lost the Civil War.
• History Repeats: After having been forced to flee Russia after the failure of the October Revolution, Zinoviev can be invited back home by the Left Eurasianists, only to be forced to flee again if the National Maximist faction prevail in the ensuing power struggle.
• Puppet King: Zinoviev can be chosen by Anatoly Lunacharsky and Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky as nominal leader of the Eurasian Union, with no real power in his hands, but with an image of a strong leader.
• The Remnant: Zinoviev leads the last remnant of the Russian Communist Party, after the assassination of Vladimir Lenin led many Old Bolsheviks to leave for France or form their own party.

Lev Kamenev

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Popular Communism^note Radical Socialism

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• Chummy Commies: Kamenev is the Russian Socialist Republic's potential leader who guarantees the most rights and freedoms to the proletariat.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Kamenev regards Nikolai Bukharin, who stayed in Russia and formed his own political party which allows the market and private property, as a traitor to the Bolsheviks, who were forced into exile after Lenin's assassination. However, he can make an alliance with Bukharin's NSP to provide a stable economic growth, agricultural development and industrialisation.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

^{Bald Mayakovsky}

^{Cap Mayakovsky}

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social-Futurism^note Totalism

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The suicide note forged by Georgy Blagonravov after he assassinates Mayakovsky has the same content as the one left behind by the real Mayakovsky when he (allegedly) killed himself:
  To all of you. I die, but don't blame anyone for it, and please do not gossip. The deceased disliked that sort of thing terribly.
• Different World, Different Movies: If Mayakovsky becomes Chairman of Soviet Russia, Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is still made, and differs from its real life counterpart in that its Big Bad is named Wilhelm, after the Kaiser of Germany.
• The Philosopher King: Mayakovsky builds an intelligentsia made out of the most talented and educated people who should lead Russian society forward. While old Russia's intelligentsia was mainly aristocrats and nobles, new Russia should have a working Soviet intelligentsia—the best minds of the Proletarian Republic, who will govern the country and faithfully serve the ideas of socialism.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: The real Mayakovsky was a poet, playwright and a strong supporter of the Bolsheviks, but had no direct involvement in politics himself. Here, he is one of the leaders of the Proletkult, the ideologue of the branch of Marxism known as Social Futurism, and can rise to power as Chairman of the Proletarian Republic.
• Scienceville: Mayakovsky turns the Proletarian Republic into a nation of the talented. Children are obliged from an early age to learn any kind of art. Attendance at children's clubs is mandatory and will be supervised by teachers and school principals. Adults are also required to attend their own clubs every weekend.

Aleksei Gastev

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Technocratic Socialism^note Totalism

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• Emperor Scientist: Gastev builds a Soviet Technocracy ruled by scientists, developers and effective managers, who develop new theories about the scientific organisation of labour to make Russia economically and technically developed.

Anatoly Lunacharsky

Role: Head of State

Party: Rossiyskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya (RKP)

Ideology: Technocratic Socialism^note Totalism

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• Short-Lived Leadership: Lunacharsky dies in 1938 (two years after game start) at the age of 63, meaning that if he becomes Chairman of the Russian Socialist Republic, he'll only get to rule for around a year.

Grigory Sokolnikov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Market Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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• Cooperation Gambit: Sokolnikov is a proponent of the New Economic Policy and the slow, gradual and cautious implementation of socialism in practice, and believes that Russia needs to cooperate with imperialist countries and save its trading contracts and contacts, a view considered revisionist and Menshevist by more hardline Bolsheviks.
• Destination Defenestration: If Sokolnikov is assassinated by Georgy Blagonravov, initial reports conclude that he has thrown himself out of a window.

Vyacheslav Molotov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National-Bolshevism^note Totalism

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• Patriotic Fervor: Molotov's National Bolshevism (which has very little to do with real life National Bolshevism) synthesises the belief in both the Bolshevik party and in the peoples inhabiting the territory of the former Russian Empire. The only true socialist state in the world shall survive by looking within and committing to socialism within one country.

Georgy Blagonravov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Socialist Security State^note Totalism

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• Kangaroo Court: Blagonravov gets rid of his rivals in the Bolsheviks (those that he hasn't assassinated yet), the other left-wing parties, and non-Russian nationalists from various minority ethnicities by holding mock trials for them, sentencing the highest-ranked ones to death over made-up charges.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: Blagonravov assassinates Vyacheslav Molotov by sabotaging his car, causing it to slide its right wheels into a roadside ditch, overturn and crush Molotov and his driver.
• Never Suicide: If Blagonravov has Vladimir Mayakovsky and/or Grigory Sokolnikov assassinated, the investigation finds no evidence of a fight or struggle, and eventually concludes that Mayakovsky has shot himself and Sokolnikov has thrown himself out of a window (at least before Blagonravov is exposed as the true culprit).
• Police State: Blagonravov, chief of the Cheka, turns the Russian Socialist Republic into a securocracy where the secret police's power is massively expanded.

Genrikh Yagoda

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Socialist Security State^note Totalism

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• Police State: In Yagoda's Russia, everyone is safe as the Cheka sees necessary, even being safe from bothering the rest of the state with unsafe ideas.
• The Purge: After succeeding Blagonravov, Yagoda launches a Great Purge to get rid of all enemies and traitors, eradicating all anti-Soviet elements, whether they are party members, opposition, terrorists or military generals.
• The Starscream: Yagoda, an experienced Cheka officer under Georgy Blagonravov, might decide that his boss is not dedicated enough to the cause of socialism, and have the Cheka remove him from power and name Yagoda himself the new Chairman.

Lazar Kaganovich

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Hardliner Bolshevism^note Totalism

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• Disappointing Older Sibling: If Lazar Kaganovich becomes Chairman, he names his elder brother Mikhail People's Commissar of the National Economy, but the latter turns out to be an irresponsible drunkard who jokes a lot, shouts at the top of his voice, does everything from playing checkers with local peasants to tipping a glass of rural moonshine, and fails all deadlines for the delivery of an important agricultural object. Lazar is forced to expel his brother from the Central Committee, before the latter commits suicide when binge-drinking.
• Nepotism: Lazar Kaganovich's cabinet of People's Commissars includes two of his brothers Mikhail and Yuliy, something that has been criticised by some non-essential party members.

Nikolai Yezhov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Socialist Security State^note Totalism

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• The Coup: Yezhov is not a candidate during the SOVNARKOM held after the Bolsheviks return to Russia; instead, he comes to power through a coup after being appointed leader of the Cheka.
• Dirty Communists: Yezhov is by far the most repressive and brutal potential leader of the Russian Socialist Republic.
• Historical In-Joke: The superevent that accompanies Yezhov reunifying Russia comes with a picture of himself and Josef Stalin. In real life, Yezhov was doctored out of the picture after Stalin purged him; in the game, Stalin is the person doctored out of the picture instead.

Pavel Dybenko

Role: Head of State (Kronstadt Fleet coups Bolsheviks)

Party: Tsentralniy Komitet Baltiyskogo Flota^note The Central Committee of the Baltic Fleet (Tsentrobalt)

Ideology: Red Junta^note Radical Socialism

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• Military Coup: If the Bolsheviks fail to deal with the peasant revolts and the Baltic Fleet Insurgency, the revolutionary sailors will seize all important building in Petrograd, while revolutionary peasants and anarchists overthrow the Bolsheviks, before Dybenko proclaims himself the new leader of Russia.
• Puppet King: Although Dybenko is the nominal leader of the Anarcho-Communist Free Territory, every person is in practice equal to another, and no one has the right to rule over another.

Stepan Petrichenko

Role: Head of State (Petrichenko ousts Dybenko)

Party: Tsentralniy Komitet Baltiyskogo Flota^note The Central Committee of the Baltic Fleet (Tsentrobalt)

Ideology: Anarcho-Communism^note Radical Socialism

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• Allohistorical Allusion: In OTL Petrichenko was the leader of the Krondstadt Rebellion; an Anarchist insurgency led by Soviet sailors against the Bolshevik government during the Russian Civil War. The insurrection failed and Petrichenko was arrested, escaped to Finland, handed over by Finnish authorities after supporting the Soviet side of the Winter War, and finally sentenced to a labor camp where he would later die in a transfer. In this timeline, The Baltic Fleet is led by Dybenko, which takes over all of Russia after seizing Petrograd. Petrichenko has a chance to become the Anarchist 'leader' of all of Russia when Dybenko's leadership is criticized for not truly representing Anarchism.
• No True Scotsman: Petrichenko can replace Dybenko as leader of the Anarcho-Communists if the people decide he is not fit enough to represent Anarchism, thanks to his rambunctious behavior and drunken actions with the people proclaiming him to be a bandit king instead. The people claim Petrichenko is a better leader for Anarchism due to his dedication of Anarchist activities and actions and not acting like an unruly bandit.

Nestor Makhno

Role: Head of State (Makhno returns to Russia, ousts Dybenko)

Party: Tsentralniy Komitet Baltiyskogo Flota^note Central Committee of the Baltic Fleet (Tsentrobalt)

Ideology: Anarcho-Communism^note Radical Socialism

See his entry in the Europe folder.

Anastasia I

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Dead Person Impersonation: In truth, the real Anastasia was killed with her parents and siblings; this Anastasia is actually Anna Anderson, the most famous and iconic of her impersonators in real life.
• Did Anastasia Survive?: This pretender to the Russian throne claims to be the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who escaped execution, and backs up her claims with extravagant (but accurate) stories of the old royal court. The Romanov family is divided on whether to accept or refuse her; nevertheless, if the monarchy is restored, she might actually end up crowned Tsaritsa Anastasia (with the leader trait Questionable Legitimacy).
• Rags to Royalty: Franziska Schanzkowska (Anna Anderson), a Polish factory worker, might end up crowned Tsaritsa of Russia if the monarchy is restored and people buy into her impersonation.

Boris Savinkov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Savinkovism^note National Populism

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• I Can Rule Alone: After forming a coalition government with Shirinsky-Shikhmatov's National Maximists, Savinkov will eventually betray Shirinsky-Shikhmatov in an attempt to seize absolute power for himself.

Pavel Gorgulov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Scythianism^note National Populism

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The real Gorgulov was a Russian supremacist who made the news because he murdered French president Paul Doumer in 1932. In KX, he is responsible for the attempt on President Alexander Kerensky's life soon after the game begins.
• The Caligula: Even his subordinates can't be sure if Gorgulov is truly sane or not.
• The Coup: Gorgulov comes to power by having his men assassinate Vozhd Boris Savinkov, imprisoning Savinkov's loyalists, then announcing to the public that the Vozhd has suddenly died and named Gorgulov his successor in his last will.
• Cult of Personality: Gorgulov's pictures hang on the wall of every house and government building. His speeches are recited by children everyday. People praise his actions in their every waking moment. Gorgulov is Russia and Russia is Gorgulov.
• Evil Luddite: Gorgulov turns Russia into a totalitarian, ultranationalist Peasant State in the belief that 'wild, primitive and Scythian' Russian civilisation will prevail over Western civilisation and establish a new order across the world.
• The Farmer and the Viper: If sentenced to life imprisonment for Kerensky's assassination and later given a pardon by Boris Savinkov, Gorgulov will repay the Vozhd by murdering him, purging his loyalists and declaring himself the new Vozhd.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Gorgulov is a Russian supremacist who views non-Russians (domestically and abroad) as scum, turns Russia into a totalitarian far-right dictatorship, embraces neopaganism and savage ultranationalism, and militarises Russia for a grand conquest of the 'weak' nations of the West.
• State Sec: After overthrowing Savinkov, Gorgulov also takes control of his predecessor's Combat Squads and merges them with his own Green Army into the Green Legionnaires.

Viktor Abakumov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Savinkovism^note National Populism

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• The Gulag: Abakumov forces prisoners into newly created labour camps, where they would work for the state.
• Police State: Abakumov's regime is centered around his control over the security services of the Russian State. He sees all and knows all, and there is no place to hide.
• Propaganda Machine: Abakumov uses various propaganda channels like movies, books and posters in order to control the people's opinions and beliefs and cement his own rule.
• The Purge: One of Abakumov's first actions after taking power is to launch the Great Purge, shooting any and all 'traitors with dangerous ideas'.
• Young and in Charge: Abakumov was born in 1908, meaning that he would be 28 at the start of the game and around 29 when he usually takes power in Russia.

Viktor Baydalakov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Solidarism^note National Populism

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• A Lighter Shade of Black: Baydalakov leads a faction of the far-right NRPR that promotes freedom of thought and individual liberties, albeit still under state control.

Vladimir Purishkevich

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Legionarism^note National Populism

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• Evil Reactionary: Purishkevich is an arch-reactionary who sees the Russian Empire as the true Third Rome, and seeks to uphold all of the traditions that made the Roman Empire great (most notably virulent antisemitism).
• Master Race: Purishkevich's RNSMA believes that the only nation of the world that needs to be respected is the Russian nation; all others simply don't deserve to exist, especially the Jews.
• State Sec: Purishkevich legalises the Black Hundreds' Yellow Shirt paramilitary and unleashes them upon those who advocate for secularism and republicanism.

Patriarch Kirill

Ideology: Theocracy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• The Theocracy: With Patriarch Kirill as Prime Minister, the Russian Empire becomes a theocratic monarchy, where religious schools are promoted, monasteries benefit from public taxation, and the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has ultimate veto power.

Nikolay Trubetzkoy

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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• The Philosopher King: Under the Orthodox Eurasianists, the intelligentsia, which consists of the brightest minds in Eurasia, becomes the new ruling class that shall lead the nation into the future. Their process of Enlightenment involves the liquidation of illiteracy, high educational standards and propaganda of the Eurasianist ideology.

Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Totalism

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• Cult of Personality: Mirsky builds a cult of personality around both Vladimir Lenin and himself, the Caesar of October and the Brutus of the World Bourgeoisie, who will liberate the workers and peasants all around the world.

Yuri Shirinsky-Shikhmatov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Populism

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• Commie Nazis: Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, leader of the National Maximists, seek to build a socialist society, mixed with Russian supremacy and nationalism.
• Et Tu, Brute?: If Boris Savinkov successfully overthrows Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, he can do nothing but feel surprised at what Savinkov did before he's shot dead.
  Boris Viktorovich, I had done nothing. Why in the whole world have you betrayed me? I trusted you - and you had everything you wanted - for loyalty!
• Interfaith Smoothie: The All-United Ecumenical Church of Eurasia is an idea of Shirinsky-Shikhmatov to syncretise all of Russia's religions according to the National-Maximalist ideology. The Church of Eurasia will unite all practitioners of different faiths under a single Church under the concept of Vseedinstvo (Unity-of-all), one which every Eurasian citizen can be part of.
• Master Race: Shirinsky-Shikhmatov promotes the supremacy of Russians as the people who created everything. He tolerates the existence of minorities, as long as they obey him and the Russian governors appointed by the National Maximists.
• Secret Police: Following the example of Ivan the Terrible, Shirinsky-Shikhmatov recreates the Oprichniks, a political police force that will ensure that there is no resistance to his rule.

Far Eastern Republic of Transamur

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^{Flag of the People's Tsardom of Transamur}

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^{Flag of the Russian National Empire}

^{Flag of the Far Eastern Republic (Totalist)}

Official Name: Far Eastern Republic, People's Tsardom of Transamur (Kazembek), Soviet Russian Empire (Kazembek, Russia unified), Far Eastern National State (Vonsiatsky), Russian National Empire (Vonsiatsky, Russia reunified)

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: If Russia proper is massively destabilised as a result of Zhukov's coup, Transamur seizes the opportunity to take control of massive swathes of Siberia.

Aleksandr Kolchak

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Role: Head of State

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

Once one of the most hailed heroes of the Russian Civil War, Admiral Kolchak fell from grace in 1924 when he became the leading figure of the unsuccessful coup against Kerensky's government. After his failure to establish himself as the sole leader of Russia, Kolchak fled to the Japanese-controlled territory of Transamur and was forced to accept the sovereignty of the Japanese Empire. While he is basically a Japanese puppet and considered as a traitor by the current Russian government, the Admiral-Dictator didn't abandon his ambitions and seeks to overthrow the Japanese yoke and become the Supreme Ruler of All Russia once again.

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• Assassin Outclassin': An attempt will be made on Kolchak's life, which may either succeed or fail. If it succeeds, Transamur may attempt to install a democratic government or install a new military junta. If it fails, Kolchak doubles down on his authoritarian rule. Either way, Japan may demand that the ruler of Transamur steps down and let them install the retired general Yui Mitsue as a reward for his long service.
• Cincinnatus: Zig-zagged. Kolchak ceded his governmental powers to President Kerensky after the Civil War, but later unsuccessfully tried to overthrow him for selling the country to Germany and his inablity to handle the crisis in Turkestan and the Japanese threat well.
• Fallen Hero: Kolchak was widely hailed as a hero for his role in defeating the Reds during the Russian Civil War, but his image has been tarnished in the aftermath of his attempted coup against Kerensky. He does, however, still maintain a dedicated following both in Transamur and within Russia itself.
• Irony: One of the reasons of the Kolchak putsch to overthrow Kerensky was the Japanese occupation of Transamur and inability of the government to deal with that. After the coup failed, Kolchak escaped to Transamur and became a Japanese puppet himself.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • One of the reasons why Kolchak was more successful during the Civil War is because he agreed to implement the SR agrarian reforms and cede the political power to the republican government by the advice of Boris Savinkov, and thus he achieved support among the population, while in real life Kolchak had SRs purged and imposed dictatorial rule over Siberia.
  • Enacting token reforms is the only way to keep Kolchak in power at the beginning of the game.
• Puppet King: Kolchak's Transamur is a puppet state to the Japanese Empire and only really maintains its nominal independence and its military through their overlords. In exchange, they provide a buffer from Russia proper and deny Russia their port at Vladivostok, which helps ensure Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific.
• The Quisling: The Russian government sees him as the traitor who sells his fellow Russian men to the Japanese imperialists. The reality is more complicated, and Kolchak isn't very fond of Japanese rule and wants to get rid of it as soon as possible.
• Rightful King Returns: Kolchak views himself as the rightful ruler of all of Russia and views reclaiming Russia as this trope being carried out. There is at least enough agreement or acceptance among the Russian populace for Transamur to gain cores along the way, giving access to the full manpower and industry of the states reclaimed and quelling all resistance.
• The Starscream:
  • In the backstory, Kolchak was exiled from Russia after leading an unsuccessful coup against Kerensky.
  • In the game itself, Kolchak's schemes to return in triumph to Russia run counter to Japan's desire to keep Russia weak and divided, ensuring Kolchak will have to eventually betray his nominal masters down the line to get what he really wants.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Japanese can try to depose him, either by coup or military force, if they consider him too harmful to their interests.

Mikhail Diterikhs

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Church Militant: During the first civil war, Diterikhs declared a crusade against Bolshevism and called all Orthodox Christians to defend Russia. If he takes power after Kolchak's assassination, he'll revive the Holy Cross Militia.
• Cincinnatus: Diterikhs is a stanch monarchist, and only maintains power until he could restore the monarchy.

Yui Mitsue

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Military Junta^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• The Assimilator: Yui begins a campaign of Japanisation, taking measures to prevent Russians from speaking, listening and even thinking Russian.
• Puppet State: When Yui takes power, the Russian Far East becomes a puppet of the Empire of Japan. It can later be given to the pro-Japanese Fengtian Government or outright annexed by the Empire.

Georgy Stark

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Meet the New Boss: Stark considers himself the legitimate heir to Alexander Kolchak, and continues most of his old friend and predecessor's policies.

Vasily Blyukher

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Red Junta^note Totalism

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• Cincinnatus: After restoring Soviet power in Transamur, Blyukher has the choice to step down and leave power to a civilian government led by Alexander Krasnoshchyokov or the exiled Bolsheviks.

Alexander Krasnoshchyokov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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• Illegal Religion: Krasnoshchyokov bans the Orthodox Church, viewing it as a bunch of reactionary traitors.

Alexander Kazembek

^{Regent Kazembek}

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National-Bolshevik Monarchism^note Totalism

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• Commie Nazis: The Mladorossi are Monarcho-Socialists with nationalist leanings, who advocate for a system that combines Soviet democracy, Orthodox integralism, Russian nationalism and the revolutionary spirit under a People's Tsar.
• Cult of Personality: The Mladorossi build a cult of Vozhd Kazembek, gathering legions of loyal supporters who will do anything that he commands.
• Knighting: Regent Kazembek creates a new aristocracy from either local politicians or the most hard-working people.
• President for Life: The Soviet Russian Empire is a democracy run by the Worker, but the only name on the ballots is that of Alexander Kazembek.
• The Remnant: The Mladorossi are supported by Bolshevik syndicalists who still adhere to the ideals of Lenin.
• Resurgent Empire: The Mladorossi seek to restore the natural borders of Russia through military conquest.
• Russia Called; They Want Alaska Back: After securing their rule in Russia, the Mladorossi will invade Alaska while the US is engulfed in the Second Civil War.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Restorationism^note National Populism

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• Cult of Personality: Within the streets of the Russian National Empire's capital sit great portraits of Vonsyatsky. Families thank him for their bread, troops think of what he has done for our nation, and school children sing songs of his deeds while aspiring to be able to prove their loyalty to a man they have everything to be grateful for.
• The Starscream: While Vonsyatsky is initially an ally of the Mladorossi, after succeeding Kazembek following the latter's assassination, he can choose to purge the Mladorossi as his first act.
• State Sec: Vonsyatsky organises his followers into a paramilitary force known as the Black Vanguard, who provide security to Kolchak's regime and engage in rounding up political dissidents as well as prominent Jews in Vladivostok accused of promoting 'dangerous foreign ideologies'.

Kirill I and Vladimir III

Kirill I

Vladimir III

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Populism (Vonsyatsky), Paternal Autocracy (Diterikhs), Totalism (Mladorossi)

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• Puppet King: If the Tsar is restored by the Mladorossi, he only serves as a puppet, and the true power is held by Vozhd Alexander Kazembek.
• Rightful King Returns: There are various ways to restore Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, the pretender to the throne of Russia (or his son and heir Vladimir, if Kirill is dead).

East Karelia

^{Flag of East Karelia (Väinämöinen)}

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Occupiers Out of Our Country: In 1922, the Metsäsissit (Forest Guerrillas) rebelled against Russia, which ended with the Treaty of Tartu, which reunited Repola and Porajärvi with Finland, while the rest of East Karelia has remained under Russian rule. If Russia falls into another civil war, they'll resume their rebellion.
• Puppet State: Karelian independence is nominal, the government is funded directly by Finland, and the Karelian national identity is weak due to their deep cultural and ethnic ties with Finns.

Yrjö Elfvengren

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• The Starscream: While Elfvengren once fought on the side of the Whites during the Finnish Civil War, lives in Finland and readily accepts Finnish aid during the second Karelian Uprising, he has no loyalty to Finland itself. After the uprising is successful, he'll turn on his former benefactors in a quest to liberate Western Karelia from Finnish rule.

Ukki Väinämöinen

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Legionarism^note National Populism

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• Embarrassing Nickname: In addition to his common nickname, Levonen is also mockingly known as Loony Grandpa, due to his (very) old age and crazy beliefs.
• Evil Old Folks: Ukki Väinämöinen is both a far-right dictator and one of the oldest leaders in the game, having been born in 1855.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Vaseli Levonen is almost always referred to by his nickname Ukki Väinämöinen (meaning Grandfather Väinämöinen), due to his resemblance to Finnish mythological hero Väinämöinen.
• Patriotic Fervor: Ukki Väinämöinen uses images of Karelian common life and Karelo-Finnish mythology to promote Karelian patriotism and desire for self-determination.

Tatarstan

^{Flag of the National Republic of Tatarstan}

^{Flag of the Tatar Socialist Republic}

^{Flag of the Idel-Ural}

^{Flag of the Golden Horde}

Official Name: Republic of Tatarstan

Ruling Party: Ittifaq (Tufrakchylar)

Ideology: Jadidism^note Social Liberalism

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• Born in the Saddle: The Tatars, heirs of the Mongol Empire, adopt their ancestors' strategies for their armed forces, which will be flexible and able to strike like lightning anywhere within the Khanate.
• Praetorian Guard: The Kazan Khanate revives the Kheshig as special divisions, extensively trained for the life-long purpose of protecting the Khan and Khanate.
• Resurgent Empire: By 1936, the Kazan Khanate is long gone, having been conquered by Russia in 1552. If the Bolsheviks fail to keep the Tatars content, they'll rise up, potentially bringing back the Golden Horde and putting Russia under the Tatar yoke again.
• We ARE Struggling Together: Almost as soon as Idel-Ural declares independence, Tatar and Bashkir delegations start running into disagreements, from the most insignificant, such as the choice of the capital, to the most important, like the choice of President and the governmental system. The disagreements lead to mutual insults and ended in mass riots amd a scuffle between the Bashkir National Army and Tatar Legionaries.

Sadri Maksudi

Role: Head of State

Party: Ittifaq (Tufrakchylar)

Ideology: Jadidism^note Social Liberalism

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Akhmet Timer

Role: Head of State

Party: Idel-Ural Meselmannary Berlege^note Muslim Union of Volga-Ural

Ideology: Right Syndicalism^note National Populism

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Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev

Role: Head of State

Party: Meselman Sotstialistik Komitety^note Muslim Socialist Committee

Ideology: Moderate Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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Galimzhan Ibrahimov

Role: Head of State

Party: Terkestan Sotstialistik Partiyase^note Socialist Party of Turkestan

Ideology: Agrarian Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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Shafi Almas

^{Khan Shafi}

Role: Head of State

Party: Idel-Ural Tatarlarynyn Milli-Azatlyk Berlege^note National-Liberation Union of Volga-Ural Tatars

Ideology: Neo-Feudalism^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: After proclaiming himself Khan of Kazan, Almas switches his suit for the robes and hat of a true Khan of the steppes. If his coup fails, his rival Tatar nationalists describe his appearance as 'stupid' and 'confusing'.
• The Coup: In one of Idel-Ural's first events, Shafi Almas leads his legionnaires on the Kazan Kremlin in an attempt to seize power for himself.
• Feudal Overlord: Khan Shafi divides the lands of the Kazan Khanate and gives them to the new four most noble families of Kazan—the eternal vassals of the Khan.
• Illegal Religion: Khan Shafi descrees that all subjects of the Khanate are obliged to accept Islam and obey its vows, on pain of death.

Bashkurdistan

Official Name: Baskhir Soviet Socialist Republic

Ruling Party: Ittifaq (Tufrakchylar)

Ideology: Moderate Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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Sharif Manatov

Role: Head of State

Party: Sotstialistik Partiyahy Terkestan^note Socialist Party of Turkestan

Ideology: Moderate Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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Ahmet-Zeki Velidi

Role: Head of State

Party: Sotstialistik Partiyahy Terkestan^note Socialist Party of Turkestan

Ideology: Agrarian Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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Mekhemmetkhan Qulayev

Role: Head of State

Party: Başqort Harbi Shurah^note Bashkir Military Council

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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Provisional Government of Yakutia

Official Name: Republic of Sakha, Great State of Sakha (Oyunsky), Yakut Socialist Republic (Ammosov), Governorate of Yakutia (Smolin)

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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• Combat Pragmatist: The Yakuts make heavy use of partisan tactics, guerilla strategies and asymmetrical warfare, believing that fighting the Russians fair and square would only lead to a quick defeat.
• Occupiers Out of Our Country: When Kolchak's government collapses, the Yakuts declare independence and vow to defend their lands from Southern devils who seek to subjugate them for their own twisted ambitions.

Gregory Efimov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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Pavel Ksenofontov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

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• Internal Reformist: A known populist and avowed republican with a known sympathy towards left wing policies, Ksenofontov pushes for a confederation of the local minorities and the Yakuts while drastically liberalising the nation.

Gavriil Ksenofontov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Agrarianism^note Social Liberalism

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Kyulyumnuur

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Agrarianism^note Social Conservatism

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• Good Old Ways: Kyulyumnuur, leader of the conservative Union of Yakuts, seeks to preserve Yakut culture over anything else.

Platon Oyunsky

^{Yytaachy Oyunsky portrait}

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Esotericism^note National Populism

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• The Assimilator: Oyunsky forces national minorities in Yakutia like the Evenks to assimilate to Yakutian culture or be deported.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: When he declares himself Yytaachy of Yakutia, Oyunsky also switches his modern suit for the traditional garb of a Yakut shaman.
• Glorious Leader: Oyunsky, the great Yytaachy (Guide) of Yakutia, is the one true leader who shall deliver the Yakut people to deliverance and prosperity. The people must bend to his will and follow his every command, for he who communes with the gods is the highest among all.
• High Priest: Oyunsky, the Yytaachy, is the only person who can commune with the Aiy, the Yakut people's primordial deities and ancestral gods.
• Knight Templar: In an effort to preserve the unique Yakut heritage from outside influences, Oyunsky seeks to strip away all in Yakutia that is simply not wholly Yakut in nature.

Maksim Ammosov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Broad Communism^note Radical Socialism

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• The Coup: Ammosov leads Yakut peasants to break into the building of the Council of Yakutia, and arrest former members of the government.

Innokentiy Smolin

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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• The Starscream: After pacifying Yakutia, Smolin has the choice to betray Kolchak, ride into Vladivostok, take over what's left of Transamur and declare himself the new Supreme Leader of Russia.

Provisional Republic of Siberia

Official Name: Provisional Republic of Siberia, Siberian Soviet Republic (Radical Socialist, Totalist)

Ideology: Liberal Narodism^note Social Liberalism

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Ivan Lavrov

Role: Head of State

Party: Oblastniki

Ideology: Liberal Narodism^note Social Liberalism

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Boris Shumyatsky

Role: Head of State

Party: Centrosibir

Ideology: Broad Communism^note Radical Socialism

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Vadim Podbelsky

Role: Head of State

Party: Centrosibir

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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Second Volunteer Army

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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Lavr Kornilov

Role: Head of State

Party: ROVS

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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Transbaikalia

^{Flag of the Transbaikal Cossack Host}

^{Flag of the Buryat-Mongolian State}

^{Flag of the Buryat Socialist Republic}

^{Flag of the Transbaikal People's Socialist Republic}

^{Flag of the Khodon State}

^{Flag of the Provisional Transbaikal Military District}

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Born in the Saddle: The Buryats have a long and proud history of cavalry warfare, and incorporate many horse riders into their army.
• Voluntary Vassal: A Radical Socialist or Social Democratic Buryatia has the choice to join Mongolia proper to the south, uniting the Mongolic peoples under one government and one state for the first time in centuries.

Grigory Semyonov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• The Quisling: Semyonov is a Japanese lapdog and will turn Transamur into a Japanese client state once he's in power.
• The Starscream: While he has been aligned with Kolchak after the Russian Civil War, Semyonov has also started receiving Japanese weapons and money to overthrow Kolchak and make the Russian Far East a Japanese colony.

Mikhail Bogdanov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social Democracy

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Tsogto Badmazhapov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social Conservative

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• Take a Third Option: If the Buryats rebel against the Cossacks for interfering too much in their internal affairs and demand the retirement of Grigory Semyonov and restoration of Mikhail Bogdanov, the Cossacks can ask for Tsogto Badmazhapov as a pro-Cossack compromise candidate.

Bazar Baradiyn

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Radical Socialism

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Bidia Dandaron

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Populism

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• Church Militant: Dandaron promotes the Buddhist sects and schools that channel their zeal and dogma into martial prowess, and employs them to protect Buryatia.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In real life, Dandaron was a Buddhist historian and philosopher. Here, if Buryatia secures independence, he can enter politics and turn Buryatia into a Buddhist theocracy.
• The Theocracy: Emphasising his Buddhist faith and dedication to the philosophy it entails, Dandaron forges Buryatia into a true theocracy, with himself ascending to a position similar to the Bogd Khan of Mongolia. His Neobuddhism thought involves the full integration of the Buddhist faith with with the politics, economics, culture, and wider society of Buryatia itself.
• Young and in Charge: Dandaron was born in 1914, is only 22 at game start, and is Buryatia's youngest potential leader.

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Militant Atheism^note Totalism

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• Hollywood Atheist: Yaroslavsky, leader of the Militant Godless, focuses on violently crushing all forms of religion. Churches are burnt, priests are put to the sword, and people are forced to work instead of waste their time praying.

Western Russian Army

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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Pavel Bermondt-Avalov

Role: Head of State

Party: SZR

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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North Caucasus

Almighty Don Host

^{Flag of the Don Republic}

^{Flag of the Don People's Republic}

^{Flag of the Don-Kuban Union / United Cossack Host}

^{Flag of the Russian Cossack Republic}

^{Flag of Novorossiya}

^{Flag of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia}

^{Flag of the Russian National Republic}

^{Flag of the Russian Socialist Republic}

^{Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics}

^{Flag of the Russian Empire}

^{Flag of the Don-Caucasus Autonomous State}

^{Flag of the Generalgouvernememt Russland}

^{Flag of the Russisches Reich}

^{Flag of the German National State}

Official Name: Don Republic, Don-Kuban Union (unification with Kuban), Don Socialist Republic (socialist), Russian Cossack Republic (Russia conquered), Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Vlasov), Russian National Republic (Vlasov, Russia conquered), Russian Empire (Tsar Vilgelm or Roman)

Ideology: Cossack Dictatorship^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Les Collaborateurs: If the German garrison takes over the Don Host, some Russian Cossacks will pledge their loyalty to the Germans and offer their aid in suppressing the rebellious tendencies of the Russians, even naming Helmuth von Pannwitz their Ataman. The Germans also make use of the Ostlegonien, which consists of the ethnic minorities of the Caucasus.
• The Federation: If the Germans take over the Don Republic and subsequently the whole of Russia, they will copy the German federal system as the basis of the new Russian government.
• Military Coup: During Bogaewsky's coup against Krasnov, the German garrison can intervene and launch their own putsch to seize power in the North Caucasus.

Pyotr Krasnov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Cossack Dictatorship^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Assassin Outclassin': If he successfully keeps power, Krasnov's residence will eventually be attacked by a group of unknown terrorists, who will never manage to actually kill him.
• The Quisling: Krasnov is a German lapdog who turns the Don Republic (and eventually the whole North Caucasus) into a military district of the Heer in Eastern Europe, where the Germans hold unprecedented control.
• The Starscream: At the end of his tree, Krasnov has the choice to betray his German overlords and establish himself as unquestioned ruler of the North Caucasus.

Afrikan Bogaewsky

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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• The Coup: Bogaewsky comes into power through by seizing the administrative buildings in Rostov and arrest Ataman Pyotr Krasnov.
• Internal Reformist: Bogaewsky seeks to turn the Don Republic into a democratic Novorossiya and grant rights to the Ukrainians, who have long been oppressed despite making up 30% of the population.

Andrey Vlasov

^{Suit Vlasov}

^{Vozhd Vlasov}

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: In 1919, Vlasov joined the Red Army during the Civil War fighting in Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Crimea. He defected to the White Army for survival as the Red Army's advance began breaking down. During Kolchak's coup, Vlasov was originally loyal to Kerensky, but when his forces were surrounded by troops loyal to Kolchak, he was offered a way out by joining Kolchak. When the tide turned against the putschists, Vlasov fled south and formed the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, believing that Russia must be 'liberated' from corrupt politicians and White officers like Kolchak and Kerensky.
• Historical In-Joke: Vlasov founded of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) and its armed wing, the Russian Liberation Army (ROA), with German backing to oppose Alexander Kerensky, exactly like what he did in real life against Joseph Stalin.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Vlasov can switch ideologies in-game, which shows how he is willing to change sides if it suits him.

Semyon Budyonny

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Radical Socialism

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• The Coup: If Krasnov or Bogaewsky cracks down on and refuses to negotiate with trade unions in the aftermath of Black Monday, Budyonny will lead the workers to overthrow the Ataman and turn the Don red.

Sergey Syrtsov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Broad Communism^note Radical Socialism

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• Regime Change: Syrtsov seeks to spread the Revolution to the rest of the North Caucasus by aiding socialist parties in Kuban and the Mountain Republic.

Helmuth von Pannwitz

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Autocratic Colonial Government^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Allohistorical Allusion: In real life, Pannwitz was Feldataman of the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps, which consisted of Cossacks who collaborated with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. Here, he can become Ataman of the Don Cossack Host, which consists of Cossacks who collaborate with the Kaiserreich.
• Kangaroo Court: If Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's coup against him fails, Pannwitz sentences Leeb (and optionally his associates) to death in a mock trial.
• Knighting: If he decides to form the Russian Kaiserreich, Pannwitz will grant land, noble titles and businesses formerly owned by the Russian aristocracy to German businessmen and nobles, creating a new aristocracy.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: If he's overthrown by Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Pannwitz is demoted to the lowly position of mayor of Wolgaburg.

Roman I

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Militarism^note National Populism

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• Unexpected Successor: Roman Petrovich, a great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, is very far down the line of succession of the House of Romanov, and can only become Tsar if the Germans take over Russia, crown Kaiser Wilhelm II as Tsar Vilgelm I, then let him abdicate in favour of a 'proper' Romanov.

Boris Shteyfon

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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• The Quisling: Shteyfon succeeds Andrey Vlasov as the collaborationist KONR's leader after his death, and becomes nominal leader of the Russian National Republic if Pannwitz decides to turn the Reichskommissariat into a Russian-ruled client state.

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Populism

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• The Coup: Leeb comes to power by leading the Sicherheitsbrigaden to storm government buildings, kill collaborator assemblies and garrisons, and arrest Helmuth von Pannwitz.
• Evil Colonialist: Leeb promotes the idea that German people have always felt an instinctive need to travel east, to colonise the plentiful lands of Russia, employs fear and terror to pacify the Russians, and paints the place of the Russian people to be under the German boot.
• The Starscream: At the end of his tree, after taking over Russia, Leeb betrays the Kaiser and invades Germany with his Reichskommissariat Russland.
• State Sec: Soon after arriving in Russia, Leeb forms the Sicherheitsbrigaden (Security Brigades), made of German soldiers who all happen to be ideologically aligned with him. Their supposed purpose is to ensure the security of the German administration, but many believe they are just Leeb's personal military force to terrorise native Russians and exert influence over the government.

Kalmykia

^{Flag of the Kalmyk Khanate}

^{Flag of the New Dzungar Khanate}

^{Flag of the Kalmyk Soviet Republic}

^{Flag of the Kalmyk Soviet Republic (Alternative)}

Official Name: Kalmyk Soviet Republic (Socialist), Kalmyk Khanate (National Populist), New Dzungar Khanate (National Populist, Ja Lama takeover)

Ideology: National Liberalism^note Market Liberalism

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• The Coup: The power vacuum that arises from Kalmykia's secession from the Don Republic can be resolved by the Kalmykia-Astrakhan Council being overthrown by Anton Amur-Sanan's socialists or Danzan Tundutov's Cossacks and Buddhists.
• Patriotic Fervor: Tundutov and Tepkin double down on nationalist propaganda efforts, blanketing the air waves and filling the papers with nationalist rhetoric to create a new identity for Kalmyks to rally around.

Nomto Ochirov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Liberalism^note Market Liberalism

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Anton Amur-Sanan

^{Old Portrait}

Role: Head of State

Party: People's Socialist Party - Kalmykia Department (NSP-K)

Ideology: Agrarian Syndicalism^note Syndicalism, Developing Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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Badma Ulanov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Liberalism^note Social Liberalism

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Sandzhi Bayanov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Agrarianism^note Social Democracy

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Erendzhen Khara-Davan

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Eurasianism^note Authoritarian Democracy

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Danzan Tundutov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Cossack Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Heroic Lineage: Danzan Tundutov, descendant of many Cossack heroes of old like Jamba-Tundutova Taishi and David Tsandzhinovich Tundutov, is the only person who can proclaim himself Khan of Kalmykia after it secedes from the Don Republic.
• President for Life: If he wins the first elections after Kalmykia becomes independent, Tundutov turns the country into an absolute monarchy with himself as Khan.

Lubsan Sharab Tepkin

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Religious Fundamentalism ^note National Populism

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• The Theocracy: Under Tepkin, Kalmykia becomes a theocracy ruled entirely by Buddhist laws, where Principles like Dharma, the Eightfold Path and the Five Precepts are the official state legal foundation.

Kuban People's Republic

^{Flag of the Autonomous Republic of Kuban}

^{Flag of the Kuban Cossack Host}

^{Flag of the Kuban-Black Sea Soviet Republic (Radical Socialist)}

^{Flag of the Kuban-Black Sea Soviet Republic (Totalist)}

Official Name: Kuban People's Republic, Autonomous Republic of Kuban (Ukrainian puppet), Kuban State (Pokrovsky)

Ideology: Cossack Dictatorship^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Voluntary Vassal: If the Chernomortsy or Lineitsy take power after Bukretov's death, Kuban becomes a puppet of Ukraine or Russia, respectively.

Nikolay Bukretov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Cossack Dictatorship^note Authoritarian Democracy

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Vasil Ivanis

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Market Liberalism

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Alexander Filimonov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social Conservatism

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Viktor Pokrovsky

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Populism

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• The Coup: If Ataman Bukretov asks neither Russia nor Germany for a bailout in the aftermath of Black Monday, Pokrovsky will rush into the Ataman's residence in Yekaterinodar, arrest Bukretov, proclaim himself the new Ataman of the Republic and dissolve the Rada.
• Culture Police: Pokrovsky bans the Ukrainian language to curb the power of the ethnic Ukrainians in Kuban.
• Press-Ganged: Pokrovsky conscripts minorities en masse, so they could either 'become true sons of Kuban on the frontlines, or die and save the world from their repugnant ways'.

Mountain Republic

^{Flag of the Chechen Republic}

^{Flag of the Mountain Socialist Republic}

^{Flag of the North Caucasian State}

^{Flag of the North Caucasian Imamate}

Official Name: Mountainous Republic of the North Caucasus, Chechen Republic (Chechen supremacy), Mountain Socialist Republic (Korkmasov), North Caucasian State (Tarkovsky), North Caucasian Imamate (Gotsynsky)

Ideology: Social Conservatism

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• The Federation: The proud Mountain Republic serves as a union of the myriad ethnicities who make their home in the North Caucasus. Seven national republics are united under one government, and the Majlis of the Republic is supposed to be divided equally between all nationalities. In practice Chermoyev has been lobbying for a Chechen majority in the Majlis; if the Mountain Republic doesn't become socialist or autocratic, it can become either a true Federation or little more than a Greater Chechnya.

Tapa Chermoyev

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Oligarchism^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Corrupt Politician: Chermoyev is famous for being the richest person in Mountain Republic, and an authoritarian ruler who clings to his power, influence and fortune.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Chermoyev is racist towards non-Chechens, viewing them as inferior heathens and his own people as the true masters of the Caucasus.
• Propaganda Machine: Chermoyev creates a departament of propaganda to flood the airwaves and fill the newspapers and leaflets to win the people over to his side.
• Red Scare: Chermoyev views Marxism as the greatest threat tto his rule, and will ban socialist parties and organisations, break up gatherings, and imprison their key members.

Vassan Girey

Role: Head of State

Ideology:' Social Democracy

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• Internal Reformist: Girey seeks to create a Caucasian Confederation where all people that comprise the North Causasus shall be equal in stance and voice.

Jalal-ed-Din Korkmasov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Radical Socialism

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• Chummy Commies: Korkmasov, leader of the North Caucasian socialists, seeks to fight corruption and promote the ideas of humanism, fraternity and liberty, inspired by the leftist powers in Western Europe.
• Illegal Religion: Chairman Korkmasov has the choice to enact state atheism, believing Islam to be an obstacle to reforms and modernism.
• Voluntary Vassal: If Korkmasov takes power in the Mountain Republic and the communists take over the Don Republic, the former will willingly join the latter, either as an autonomous zone or being directly annexed.

Nukh-Bek Tarkovsky

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Cincinnatus: After his coup, instead of declaring himself Shamkhal, Tarkovsky has the choice to give up power to Najmudin Gotsynsky, the Imam of the North Caucasus.
• Military Coup: If Korkmasov's socialist government fails to stabilise the nation, Tarkovsky will march on the capital with his followers in the Army, remove the government, and install a dictatorship.

Najmudin Gotsynsky

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Religious Fundementalism^note National Populism

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• The Theocracy: Imam Najmudin turns the North Caucasus into the Mecca of Europe, a holy land ruled according to Sharia law.

South Caucasus

Georgia

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^{Flag of The Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia}

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Official Name: Democratic Republic of Georgia, General Governorate of Transcaucasia (Russian Puppet, Absolute Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy), Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia (Totalist), The Great Socialist Transcaucasian State (Formable, Totalist)

Ideology: Social Democracy

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Noe Zhordania

Role: President^note Country Leader

Ideology: Social Democracy

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• We Hardly Knew Ye: As announced in December of 1935, Noe Zhordania stated that he would step-down as acting President the following year due to waning popularity through a series of ineffective political reforms, and his controversial support to draw closer economically to The German Empire. Despite this, his rather long years of ruling and representing the Georgian people are seen as a genuine time of stability, and prosperity. However, he still retires in January of 1936, allowing for his close friend and political partner, Evgeni Gegechkori to take office after him.

Evgeni Gegechkori

Role: President^note Country Leader

Ideology: Social Democracy

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• Choosing Neutrality: Evgeni Gegechkori can decide to withdraw Georgia from Germany's economic bloc after the Black Monday stock market crash.

Joachim Franz Humbert

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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Ioseb "Koba" Jughashvili

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Role: Premier^note Country Leader

Party: Sakartvelos Bolshevikuri Partia^note Bolshevik Party of Georgia

Ideology: Georgian Socialism^note Totalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}Ioseb Jughashvili, nicknamed "Soso" as a child, was born to a peasant family in Georgia, his father a shoemaker who's business had failed. Living in poverty and victim to the abuse of his father, Ioseb left home, naive to the world unaware of the impact he would have on his nation. After many years of witnessing the crimes of the Russian Tsardom a young Ioseb joined with local revolutionaries, making a name for himself he proved to be a natural leader and fighter. When the Russian Civil War broke out he led his comrades in battling enemy forces, alongside Grigol the two Georgians became infamous for their efficiency and also brutality. As the war progressed Ioseb fled to Georgia, joining the coalition government and proving himself as an intelligent economic advisor. After launching a coup of his former comrade and declaring himself Chairman of the nation, he now possesses the ability to reshape his country’s destiny under the ideology of Georgian Socialism.A staunch nationalist and socialist, his popular revolutionary ideals and power hungry ambition has made him the unquestionable leader of a new Georgia.

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• The Assimilator: Jugashvili views minority cultures as an insult to the Georgian nation that must be rectified by teaching them the proper Georgian way of life.
• Bears Are Bad News: During a hunting excursion in the Caucasian wilderness, Jugashvili is attacked by a bear, but his bodyguards manage to shoot it before it could kill him. His portrait then changes with the addition of scars and an eyepatch.
• Commie Nazis: Jugashvili, chairman of the Georgian Bolshevik Party, has developed 'Georgian Socialism', which mixes socialist rhetoric with Georgian ethnic chauvinism and rabid Russophobia.
• Cult of Personality: Jugashvili orders political commissars to ensure that loyal workers shall adore the nation and himself, saviour and defender of Georgia.
• The Gulag: Jugashvili builds labour camps in the impenetrable Caucasus mountains, where enemies of the state are put to work.
• Master Race: Jugashvili's propaganda promotes that the Georgian population embodies unparalleled industriousness and intellectual prowess in the Caucasus, if not the world. Ethnic minorities must be assimilated and all Russian influence must be pushed out, for it is a remnant of the Tsardom's imperialism.
• The Purge: To get rid of his Menshevik rivals, Jugashvili either removes them from government positions, sentences them to 25 years of labour, or executes them.

Abkhazia

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^{Flag of Abkhazia (Social Democrat)}

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Official Name: Abkhazia, Afro-Abkhazia (Pan-Africanist), Federation of Africa and Abkhazia (Formable, Pan-Africanist) Kingdom of Abkhazia (Monarchy), Principality of Abkhazia (Ottoman Puppet), Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia (Totalist)

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Although the birth of Abkhazia is one of violence, declaring independence from Georgia with none other than a war, this allows for the opportunities to enact government control and military expansion.

Simon Basaria

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• I Did What I Had to Do: Despite his resentment for ethnic-Georgians, Basaria's actions can be seen as justifiable, as the sole cause for a war of independence was the oppression of the Abkhazian minority in Georgia. By no means, does Basaria wish to continue skirmishing, but rather focus internally to heal the newly independent nation.
• Persecution Flip: Abkhazia can only revolt against Georgia and achieve independence if the Georgian government decides to oppress ethnic minorities. When the first Abkhazian elections are being drafted, they can decide to ban all ethnic Georgians from participating.
• Regime Change: With the Abkhaz people gaining autonomy from Georgia, Simon Basaria is given the opportunities to restore the once-existing Kingdom of Abkhazia, to which he is not against. Depending on which option the player chooses, Basaria will stepdown from his dictatorship and restore the monarchy.

Abash Shaaban

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Left Pan-Africanism^note Radical Socialism

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• The Coup: If the pro-Georgian Mensheviks decide to crack down on the autonomy of the Afro-Abkhaz minority, Abash Shaaban, a local popular figure, will raise a group of militants to overthrow the government.

Aleksandr Chachba

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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• Offered the Crown: Shortly after Abkhazia gains independence, Simon Basaria can choose to restore the Chachba Monarchy, a 9th-century kingdom that once ruled over the area, under King Aleksandr I.

Arzakan Emukhvari

Role: Head of State

Ideology Social Democracy

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Nestor Lakoba

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Communism^note Totalism

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Varlam Servashidze

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social Democracy

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Azerbaijan

Official Name: Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan (Radical Socialist, Syndicalist, Totalist)

Ideology: Social Conservatism

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Mammad Yusif Jafarov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social Conservatism

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Alsan bey Sefikurdski

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Agrarian Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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Aliheydar Garayev

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Syndicalism

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Mir Jafar Baghirov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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Central Asia

Alash Autonomy

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^{Flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan}

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Official Name: Alash Autonomy, Alash Orda (Independence from the Russian Republic), Socialist Republic of Kazakhstan (Radical socialist coup; Syndicalists or Communists empowered)

Ruling Party: Alash

Ideology: Jadidism^note Social Liberalism

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• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Twice over; first, when Kerensky is assassinated, the Alash Autonomy usually declares independence as the Alash Republic. Second, during the Civil War, the Alash Republic may attempt to seize Russian land while both sides are distracted.

Alikhan Bukeikhanov

Role: President^note Head of State

Party: Alash

Ideology: Jadidism^note Social Liberalism

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• Emergency Authority: In 1925, a war between the Alash Autonomy and Turkestan, as well as Kolchak's coup in Russia, turned the Autonomy's continued existence untenable. Bukeikhanov was returned to power by junior Kazakh officers and granted wide-reaching emergency powers to resolve the crisis, and has been forced to maintain the state of emergency due to southern raids and Russian integrationist tendencies.

Mirzhakip Dulatov

Role: President^note Head of State

Party: Alash

Ideology: Jadidism^note Social Liberalism

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Smagul Sadvakasov

Role: President^note Head of State

Party: Alash

Ideology: Jadidism^note Social Democracy

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Aleksandr Dutov

Role: Ataman^note Head of State

Party: Kazachiy Krug / Orenburgskoye Kazachye Voysko^note Orenburg Cossack Host

Ideology: Cossack Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Foreign Ruling Class: Dutov, ataman of the Orenburg Cossack Host, grants Cossacks a special status higher than that of Kazakhs after he takes over Kazakhstan.

Alibi Dzhangildin

Role: Premier^note Head of State

Party: Koshchi

Ideology: Agrarian Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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Saken Seifullin

Role: Premier^note Head of State

Party: Qazaqstannıñ sïndïkalïstik partïyası^note Syndicalist Party of Kazakhstan

Ideology: Syndicalism

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Zhumabay Shayakhmetov

Role: Premier^note Head of State

Party: Kazak Enberkshilerinin Odagyn^note Union of Kazakh Toilers

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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Emirate of Bukhara

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^{Flag of the Ilkhanate}

^{Flag of the People's Republic of Turkestan}

Official Name: Emirate of Bukhara

Ruling Party: Council of Ministers

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy

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Mohammed Alim Khan

Role: Emir^note Head of State

Party: Council of Ministers

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Adipose Rex: Without a doubt, as direct cause of his royal status of Emir of Bukhara, Mohammed Alim Khan's reign has done little to mask his status as better of than most Bukharans, contributing greatly to his weight.
• Cult of Personality: If the player decides to crack-down on the various revolts from factions and minorities, Mohammed Alim Khan will create a cult of personality by surrounding himself with a loyal council of ministers who dub Bukhara the "Land of Emir" in his honor.
• Historical Badass Upgrade: In reality, Mohammed Alim Khan was little more than a puppet to the Russian Empire who reigned over the Bukharan "protectorate" essentially meaning his self-proclaimed rule was nothing more than an appeal to the Bukharan people, by allowing a Bukharan Emir to act as a faux head of state, whilst the Russian government really controlled all politics of the nation. However, in Kaiserredux, it is more of the same, albeit with more autonomy, allowing him to either reform or further crackdown on the many political and social issues of Bukhara. Furthermore, Alim Khan can be crowned as Khan of the Ilkhanate, if the Mongolian Khanate is restored and decides to release the conquered Central and Southern Asian lands. Funnily enough though, Alim Khan will still only act as a puppet, much alike his real counterpart.
• Internal Reformist: After taking the throne from his father in 1911, Mohammed Alim Khan begun his reign by passing reforms in taxation and administration. However, these were only to cement a good image in the face of the public, and were truly to increase his authority over Bukhara. Despite this though, any series of reforms, no matter how small, still had benefits to his people. If the player chooses to keep Mohammed Alim Khan in power via either a constitutional, or absolute monarchy, he will pass further social and religious reforms.
• Never My Fault: When it comes to the many social, economic, or political issues within the Emirate of Bukhara, the excuse for all problems is typically blamed on the vast ethnic minorities, at the will of Mohammed Alim Khan.
• Only Serves for Life: At the start of the game in 1936, Mohammed Alim Khan has been ruling over Bukhara for 25 years, with no signs of stopping unless threatened. Even then, the player can choose to crush any revolts, thus securing his eternal reign.

Ibrahim Bek

Ideology: Islamism^note National Populism

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• The Federation: Ibrahim Bek transforms Bukhara into an Islamic Federation, where minorities are not oppressed but cherished as brothers under the Holy Crescent.
• The Theocracy: In Ibrahim Bek's Islamic Federation, the most powerful bond is the faith in Allah; everyone must not forget that all are children of the One True God.

Abdulkadyr Mukhitdinov

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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• Chummy Commies: Mukhitdinov is the leader of the Kokand socialists fighting against the Kadimists' despotic rule, and seeks to ensure equality and bring the people to the modern age through education.
• The Coup: Mukhitdinov comes to power in both Bukhara and Kokand by overthrowing either Mohammed Alim Khan or Serali Lapin.

Usman Hodzha

Ideology: Agrarian Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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Khanate of Khiva

Official Name: Khanate of Khiva, Republic of Khiva (Young Khiva), Khivan People's Republic (Totalist)

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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Junaid Khan

Role: Vizier^note Head of Government; De facto leader

Party: Basmachi

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• The Man Behind the Man: Junaid Khan, de jure Vizier of Khiva under Khan Sayid Abdullah, has wielded immense power within the Khanate of Khiva ever since he consolidated power over the Khanate since 1918.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Junaid Khan's death opens up Khiva's political tree, as his erstwhile puppet becomes free to decide on Khiva's future course.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Junaid Khan dies a few months after game start.

Sayid Abdullah

Role: Khan^note Head of State; De jure leader (Puppet Monarch until Junaid Khan's death)

Party: Basmachi

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy, Jadidism^note Social Conservatism (Bobo Ahun appointed Vizier, Constitutional Monarchy established)

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• Cincinnatus: After Junaid Khan's death, Khan Sayid Abdullah can be persuaded by Bobo Ahun to give up power and rule as a constitutional monarch instead of an absolute one.
• The Puppet Cuts His Strings: The death of Vizier Junaid Khan, the de facto ruler of Khiva, allows the Khan to rule in his own right, instead of being a mere puppet.
• Puppet King: Sayid Abdullah, the Khan of Khiva since 1918, has minimal actual power and serves as puppet for Vizier Junaid Khan, who has seized power in a military-backed coup also in 1918.
• You Can't Go Home Again: If the Young Khiva's revolution is successful, the Khan will be forced to flee Khiva.

Bobooxun Salimov

Role: Khan^note Head of State (Young Khivan revolution successful, or first Khivan election won), Vizier^note Head of Government (Viziership appointed)

Party: Basmachi

Ideology: Jadidism^note Social Conservatism (Viziership appointed) Jadidism^note Social Liberalism (First Khivan election won)

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Usman Yusupov

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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Republic of Kokand

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Official Name: Republic of Kokand, Khanate of Kokand (Paternal Autocrat), People's Republic of Turkestan (Totalist)

Ideology: Social Liberalism

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Mustafa Shokay

Ideology: Social Liberalism

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• President for Life: By game start, President Shokay has ruled Kokand for 19 years, defeating the rival Kadimist party in all elections, and many people have gotten tired of his rule.

Serali Lapin

Ideology: Islamism^note Paternal Autocracy

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• President Evil: If he wins the 1936 election, Lapin will ban the rival Jadidist party, crack down on freedoms, put an end to democracy, and turn Kokand into a one-party dictatorship.

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