NS Nation Name: Monsone
Nation Name (Official): Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Nation Name (Shortened): RSFSR, Soviet Russia, Red Russia, Russia, etc.
Capital City: Moscow
Type of Government: One-Party Semi-Federal Dictatorship with a Highly-Centralized Power Structure and a Socialist Economy
Leader: Vladimir Lenin
Territory:
Colonies: None
Primary Religion: Officially None (State Atheism). The largest religion by the number of adherents would be Eastern Orthodox Church.
Primary Ethnicity: Russians
GDP (Nominal): The Soviet Union and the RSFSR first recorded their GDP in the late 1980s. Anything before that is estimated at best, with the next best thing being to use numbers from the Russian Empire, but those are going to be off due to the state of internal conflict Russia is in. There are simply no figures to be found for this because there were never official statistics released regarding the Soviet GDP during this time period.
Active Duty Troops: ~5 million
Reserve Troops: ~1.5 million
Total Manpower: ~40 million (There are literally no exact numbers to be found for this)
Tanks: Roughly 60 Renault FTs, and about 20 Mark Vs, all captured from the White Movement/Foreign Interventionists.
Armored Cars: 120 Austin Armored Cars, 30 Garford-Putilov Armored Trucks, A Few Hundred (~200) Assorted Improvised Armored Cars.
Aircraft: I cannot find any particularly accurate or concrete data for the number of aircraft the Red Army had at this time, let alone for what types it fielded.
Artillery Pieces: ~3,000
Cavalry: ~80,000
Dreadnoughts: 4
Frigates: Zero (Frigates kind of died off in the 19th century and don't really make a resurgence until WW2, at least IRL that is)
Battleships: 4
Destroyers: 36
Ocean-Going Gunboats: 5
Riverine Craft: ~160 (Assorted converted ships from tugboats to paddlewheel steamers, to purpose-built ships)
History:
Pre-October Revolution---Following the end of Tsarist rule, and the rise of the new Russian Republic hopes were high. But, power corrupts, and promises where broken. That combined with atrocious war performance (and some foul play on behalf of the Bolsheviks), albeit with the Battle of Moon Sound not ending in a complete defeat for the Russians, led to the overthrow of the Provisional Government in October 1917.
Early Soviet Rule And Civil War---Pretty much as soon as the Soviets took power, the already dire situation in Russia imploded upon itself. Insturectionsist ranging from anarchists to Tsarists took up arms to oppose the nascent Soviet government. Knowing that Russia could not fight the Central Powers and itself led to the signing of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk in its original form, with the only concession to Bolshevik demands being (unlike IRL) Ukraine's independence not being recognized. That didn't matter much, though, since Ukraine had broken away already from Bolshevik control. Despite the less harsh terms of the treaty (compared to IRL), there was still general outrage at the treaty, further damaging the already battered reputation of the Bolsheviks (having overthrown the elected government of Russia et al).
By 1918, it was clear that Russia was no more. In the west, Ukraine was torn between pro-Bolshevik and pro-independence forces, the Baltics where German vassals, Finland was independent, and the rest of Russia was stuck in a power struggle between the Bolsheviks (or "Reds") and the White Movement as well as dozens of smaller local movements. Compounding the Soviet woes was incompetent military command due to the military being based on ideological and not practical lines. Due to this, in early-1918 a massive reorganization of the assorted Soviet forces began with the formation of the Red Army, and the incorporation of experienced officers that formerly fought under the Tsar. Despite this, it was taking time to reform the Red Army, and defeats of all fronts kept pushing the Soviets back. And in mid-1918, Lenin orders on the economic front, an easing of the land seizures, with a greater emphasis on food production efficiency and supply to meet demand.
Despite these defeats and the loss of land, the Tsar and his family were kept alive (unlike IRL) and moved from Yekaterinburg to Moscow (where they remain as of the start of this RP under house arrest in a fairly mundane house), with the intended goal being to eventually use him and his family as negotiation tools as well as pawns. However, it has been made clear by Lenin that the Tsar will not be taken alive by any other force, implying a bloody end for the Tsar (and his family) if anyone attempts to liberate him.
By the end of 1918, the situation on the battlefield was dire. The enemy was closing in on all sides, and with practically no allies to speak of, the Soviets were cornered. Or, so it seemed. The reorganization of the Red Army was nearing completion in time for renewed offensives in 1919. Armed with a superior industrial base compared to the Whites and the other factions, the RSFSR has begun planning major offensives in 1919 to among other things take the Trans-Siberian Railway. Whether the reorganization and these offensives will change the fortunes of the beleaguered Bolsheviks is yet to be seen.
RP Sample:
Here is one, ironically, also involving the USSROther: The RSFSR has two notionally autonomous nations that it controls as part of the larger Red/Soviet alliance. Those are the Latvian SSR, and the Commune of the Working People of Estonia. Both are Soviet puppet states and are moderately popular.
I accept and acknowledge the rules, terms, and premise of this roleplay: Monsone
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