http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/ Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:12:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3800 Robert Nanders Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:28:37 +0000 http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3800 Alternative history is always a fun activity, and makes for some fine fiction reading, too! But the reality provides more than enough of interest for me... Alternative history is always a fun activity, and makes for some fine fiction reading, too! But the reality provides more than enough of interest for me…

]]> http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3408 Ataman Rakin Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:13:26 +0000 http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3408 Cheers lads. Actually, a political fiction novel... Yes, when I have more time or after retirement in several decades :) St. in the vein of Robert Harris' 'Fatherland', which is set in Nazi Germany in... 1964 (after Nazi victory in WW II). Cheers lads. Actually, a political fiction novel… Yes, when I have more time or after retirement in several decades :) St. in the vein of Robert Harris’ ‘Fatherland’, which is set in Nazi Germany in… 1964 (after Nazi victory in WW II).

]]> http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3396 Ben Wed, 31 May 2006 23:41:42 +0000 http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3396 This is amazing stuff. The book-idea sounds pretty compelling. This is amazing stuff. The book-idea sounds pretty compelling.

]]> http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3391 Nick Wed, 31 May 2006 20:33:55 +0000 http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3391 Phew! great stuff. Of course, there is the school of thought that argues that history would remain pretty much the same even if some key events didn't happen. In 1405, following defeat by Amir Temur, it looked like the Ottomans might be remembered as little more than a short-lived Turkish dynasty that existed in Western Anatolia for just over a century. But within 20 years the dynasty had been revived, Constantinople fell in 1453 and the rest is, well, history. Phew! great stuff. Of course, there is the school of thought that argues that history would remain pretty much the same even if some key events didn’t happen. In 1405, following defeat by Amir Temur, it looked like the Ottomans might be remembered as little more than a short-lived Turkish dynasty that existed in Western Anatolia for just over a century. But within 20 years the dynasty had been revived, Constantinople fell in 1453 and the rest is, well, history.

]]> http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3368 Laurence Wed, 31 May 2006 14:37:33 +0000 http://www.neweurasia.net/2006/05/31/what-if%e2%80%a6-central-asia-wo-the-ussr/#comment-3368 Ataman, this is very interesting. Maybe you should expand it into a book--in Russian perhaps?--it might make a Russian best-seller as a counterfactual thriller, is you have sympathetic Slavic as well as Central Asian protagonists, the flip side of "White Sun of the Desert"... Ataman, this is very interesting. Maybe you should expand it into a book–in Russian perhaps?–it might make a Russian best-seller as a counterfactual thriller, is you have sympathetic Slavic as well as Central Asian protagonists, the flip side of “White Sun of the Desert”…

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