Russian State

The **Russian National State** (in Russian: *Российское Народное госуда́рство* ; Transliteration: Rossijskoe Narodnoe *Gosudárstvo***).** Created in 1938 by the consolidation of power in the Russian Republic to Lavr Kornilov, who would declare himself the Vozhd of All Russians. Its currently the largest single country on earth and is one of the two major non-Socialist world powers challenging the **Third International.**

## The Rebirth of Russia

### Before the War

Followed the disaster of the First Great Warand the Civil War. The Russian Republic was always under waves of instability, only by the miracle of God that it didn't fail. However, by 1936 this unstable republic would suffer its final death blown with the world economic crisis of 1936 and the assasination of Aleksandr Kerensky, the deeply unpopular populist's death created a period of extreme chaos in the country owning not to anyone grieving the late president but the factional fighting of those who has longed for this day. With the country dying rapidly with a paralysed government, more than 30% of Russian would wake up with an empty belly and a lost job - mass suicide followed soon after. Its clear to anyone that the SRs Government could no longer control anything in the country as general strikes paralysed the factories with the fear of a return of Bolshevikism. Boris Savinkov's National Republican People's Party have long struggled against Kerensky and the SRs in the restored republic, an alliance of many right-SRs expelled during and after the civil war, officers and political personalities united around Savinkov and his Union for the Salvation of the Motherland originally, clamouring the age old populism, embelded with Savinkov personal experience in organisation and adapted much from his eternal enemy, the RSDLP(b). Chiefly it remains Savinkov's personal political vehicle.

Months after the killings and a new SRs ministries replaced eachother in combination with the economic hardship and political instability, talks of a military coup is now fully an open fact, its no longer a matter of "if" but only "when". As the SRs now desparately gather ally to weather the storm, the Savinkovists know that they have no actual military power to endure an violent assault on the Republic from undesirable supporters of Czarism and autocracy like Denikin, Drozdovsky and others. It must take the lead in whatever coming conspiracy to ensure its countinuous position of power. And no one else but the devil they know too well, General Kornilov, who are being pushed himself by other factions to try his luck once more.

Later that year on March 21st, a secret conference in Saratov would be called for the right-wing parties and forces in Russia, its chairman is no other but the first soldier on the frontline against Bolshevism, Lavr Kornilov. Presided over a room of familiar faces, Boris Savinkov (NPPR), Pyotr Wrangel, Ivan Illyn and other people. There a common program was jointly signed titled “The Rebirth of Russia”, the unpublished manifesto calls for a Directorate to be established in Russia comprising of General Kornilov to serve as the head of state of Russia and save it from the threat of disintergration by the political and economic crisis, to stabilise Russia in this extraordirnary hours and solve the crisis that the civilian government now proven uncapable.

Two weeks later from the secret conference, the assassination of its Mayor shocked Moscow, as the second most high profile death in city from assasination, however, more threatening than the death of poor Fyodorovich, this death was publicly taken responsibility by a certain Bolshevik combat group that styled itself the “Lenin’s Young Chekists” and was wholeheartedly cheered on by the RFSSR  Government-in-exiles in Paris, but later investigation conducted by French Bureau revealed suspicion about the existent of such entity and its relationship with the Bolshevik Underground. Regardless, the investigation by the Okhrana was quickly suspended, and the case forgotten with the event happening 2 days after it.  On April 6, 1938, the streets of Moscow were packed with a large entourage of officers, military and police decorated and lined up to form a direct path to the Duma Building. Wearing his old Civil War uniforms, with flowers thrown upon, Lavr Kornilov entered the Duma in a reminiscent of the old day before the Reds Rebellion. A document was presented to the Duma, on its cover “Resolutions of the 16th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)”, it presented a conspiracy about the alliance and reconciliation with the “Democratic” and “Progressive” forces of Russia named directly as the Mensheviks and the SRs in an effort to topple the weakened reactionary regime as its weakest to proclaim a new Socialist Soviet Republic. With that the Duma is henceforth disbanded, to be replaced by a Government of National Salvation. The suspentions of the Russian Constitution gave its name to the current form of government, as the decrees in the first years of its existence were signed with the form "the Russian People's State" instead. Emergency decrees were issued in April to combat political extremism and bolshevik-sympathetic elements, the Russian Red Scares notoriously made no attempt to hide the hand of Savinkov in using it to destroy his opponent in the SRs and their allies. As the Kornilovites cheer their Chief on the steps of the Duma, the spider web of B.V Savinkov now hang over the new regime.

Reactions to the implementation of the April Decrees were hostile as first, especially by its victims with the SRs returning to terrorism and claimed the life of hundreds in the Year of Sulfur, most notably Denikin and Savinkov. The death of Savinkov is a mortal wound to the National Republicans, whose existence have owned to the personality itself now plunged into confusion and the machiavellian network of powers that the once extraordinary man built collapsed, the new leadership of Derental attempt to follow the words of their prophet, but the party have lost its influence and power, capitulated to the Kornilovites and the Ivan Illyn and his clique. In almost poetically irony, the Dark Horse writer mimic the fate of his character, as his life and all its significant, cut short by a mere incident, death reign supreme above all tsars, even those without crown. The Kornilovist power now reign absolute in Russia and the flood gate of counter-revolution that Savinkov tried to build collapsed and his very party swallowed in the frenzy of Kornilovism.

After alll the chaos, peace and stability returned to Russia in the end, with the series of governmental reforms, agrarian reforms and industrialisation no longer hindered by parties politics and assisted by the broad of capable ideologues and intellectuals in the time known as the Kornilov Years. This also formed the foundation of the  Five-Headed Regime that continued to govern Russia.

### The Aftermath

Kornilov passed away from a heart attack on April 7th, 1948. 2 years after his holy duty to Russia is finished and a new world order in which Russia is a pillar is established. But under the shadow of Kornilov's lavish funeral march across Moscow, his pupils plot. The power struggle between the factions of the Regime and within the Kornilovites themselves only ended 3 months after his death, with Wrangel, Kutepov and various old guards forced into "retirement" while a large numbers of Black Hundreds and Savinkovists setenced to death for treason in the Petrogard show trials. The young faction of Kornilovites emerged as absolute victor and its face are the two duo, Nikolai Skoblin - the Vozhd of Russia and Mikhail Levitov - The Marshal of Prussia. The Siberian Army is nothing much compared to the Western armies after all the political fighting in the East and the departure of Kolchak, but it was still a large force, especially now that almost all Cossack hosts are considered unreliable and at worst enemies of the state, so the Siberian GHQ got its wish.

This understanding was revived and proven well to the master of the Kremlin once again in 1948, as Ugern-Sternberg's forces were defeated on its march by the Siberian Army troops, the pool of reserve to deal with domestic political enemies as long as the state maintain a certain degree of popular support and republican.

## Greater Russia

### The Reconquest of Central Asia

Right after the creation, The Russian State has set the aim for his vision is the restoration of Russia's Imperial glory and to mobilise the economy and population to serve his industrialization and modernization plan. And no enemies were better than the Caucasian separatist states formed almost 2 decades ago in the aftermath of the Civil War. Officially dubbed the Campaign for the Restoration of Stability in the Caucacus, this was led by Major General Mikhail Levitov, 2nd South Russia Army.

### The Great Patriotic War

After the pacification of the Caucasus, the war in the West is raging in its 2nd year, both the communist horde and the Germans have came to a stalemate, both sides pouring resources to the meat grinder of the Rhine - recalling so much of the horror of the first war. This however, leave the German distracted and unprepared in the East, pulling most of its garrision to throw into the face of the French. In this window of opportunity that Lavr Kornilov would delivery his most infamous speech titled "The Great Patriotic War" and opened a second front and overwhelmed the German and their allies, who was then forced to once more pull troops out of another front to fill the hole. Aided by the nationalist forces that have long fought a struggle against Germany's imposed puppet states. The War in Europe ended with the first sighting of the French 7th Amoured Corps in Western Germany.

### Russo-Finnish War.

Began at the end of Winter 1939 and lasted over spring of 1940, while the French Army has breached into Belgium and the 12 days of Brussels saw the German Army moving to contain the French offensive, which made most of its military presence in Eastern Europe wavers. The reconquest of Central Asia was merely a stroll of the massive Russian army against a collective tribal and unorganized forces of the infant governments resullted in easy victories. Finland proved to be the first real challenge against the new Kornilovist Russian Armed Forces, with decades of training and support by the Germans, not to mention a large officer corps dated from the most prestigious of Tsarist military schools, in another word - a modern european army. Preparation was stressed with Kornilov's personal oversee for a whole year prior waiting the right moment, the moment that came in '39. Nikolai Skoblin and Pyotr Wrangel were assigned the commanders of a 500,000 men army that invaded Finland, the Finn defensive were formidable, as expected by the Russians. But their resources were limited, despite massive support both in materials and troops from the Scandinavian nations and the deployment of a 25,000 strong German contingent (However, the Reich hesitated from declaring war because of the ongoing conflict). The steady Russian offensive broke the Mannerheim Line after 2 months and by the 5th month, Helsinki.

## The Five-Headed Regime

### The Kornilovists

The military officers that stood along with Lavr Kornilov on those treacherous days in the Civil War and especially from the rank of the Kornilov Shock Regime. Loyal to the death to the vision of their leader, total distrust of all politicians and political parties who brought Russia to her kneel in the Reds's Rebellion, the only people worthy of leading Russia is those that shed blood for her in the heroic battlefield. The Kornilovites thus are the very symbol of a New Russian Man. Being represented legally by the Russian Military Union, but the political entity serve less of a party than being the face of the clique.

### The Savinkovists

Officially the **National People's Republican Party**. Created by the once formidable man Boris Savinkov, an SR turned right-wing, a politician of will and rhetoric. A new Russian nation is possible said the man who brought the entire Soviet spy system down before they gunned him down on the lakeside of Baikal. Alexandr Derental, his right hand man now steer the party in the wake of the lost of its ideological father.

### The Eurasianist

Officially the **Eurasian People's Party** lead by Pyotr Nikolayevich Savitsky, it advocate for Slavophile and Eurasian vision of the Great Russian state. A party mainly composed of intellectual and ideologues. Its position is most shakey among the parties that unite in the government, for its one with most lacks of support as most of its slavophile views often are expressed by other parties as well, the party is currently under the personal patronage wing of General Levitov, its said that the general has a certain fondness of Eurasianist ideologies more specifically than other leaders.

### The Monarchists

The monarchists organisations is split between two camp, originally joined during the first years of Kornilov as the Supreme Monarchist Congress, but eventually the two came to intense conflict as the former liberal and more constitutionalist elements of the Octoberists and former Kadets clashed intensely with the right-wing sections led by former and revived "black hundreds" radical right-wing monarchists organisations. Opposition to political anti-Semitism was also a key issue as contrary to the hope of the right-wing monarchists, the new government of Kornilov after expelled the ghost of Savkinkov from its shoulder turned to the figure of Ivan Illyn and his join offensive with the remaining Savinkovites for the plan of national "racial reconcilation" and the final "end to the nationality question". With mean the completely and total national assimilation of the remaining Russian Jewry. Resistance occured, but both sides under pressure by Kornilov backed down and despite the increased security of the Russian jewry and other ethnic minorities as well as the commission of the first Russian jewish officer, Colonel Vilenkin and the 5st Kornilovite (Judeans) Regiment, no serious major racial reconciliation project occurred and the political status of the Russian jewry remains ambiguious as it was under the republic. The break created the Popular Monarchist Union, under the leadership of Evgeny Amvrosievich Efimovsky although under the shadow of Kornilov neither factions really has any room to shine.

The infamous right-wing monarchist organisation **Russian People's Union** revived in 1937 after the Kornilovite coup ended its ban on radical right wing parties is led by Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork. Contempt with the current state of affair however, their monarchist restoration is still a goal to be realised. Their Officers Union is a section of the ROVS. During the 1948 Kremlin Crisis when its clear that the death of Kornilov marked the end of the political compromises between the parties and the aging Wrangel at the time as well as the officers of the Young Clique clearly want to follow through with the policy of racial reconcilation as well as opposing the restoration of the monarchy, this led to them turning to fully support the attempt by General Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, who has returned to Russian services years ago after the the 1937 coup, he managed to raise several divisions on its way to Moscow including his personal 203rd Motorised Infantry (formerly Asiatic Calvary Division) from its headquarters, although Ungern-Sternberg were quickly arrested after many divisional commanders found out his orders are not legitimate and turned on him. After the Crisis, Ungern-Sternberg was among the rare people that received the death sentences, a series of rather fabricated crimes of looting, mass murders and other extreme heinous crimes upon Russian soil during his short endeavour, its strongly believed in the Bureau reports in Paris that despite Ungern-Sternberg's track record, its simply impossible that he would dare commit such things in such a short time on Russian soil itself and therefore mostly a trial to finally let the young kornilovites to eliminate the most dangerous and viotile Russian military commander of monarchist orientations as well as gearing the monarchists into line. The mass arrests of its members extremely weakened the party.

### The Ilyinists

Follow its chief ideologist, the jurist Ivan Ilyin. This faction is a loose grouping of officers, intellectuals and the old conservative. Seeking a full realisation of a corporate state on the old order, the Illynists are not much a power of their own but centering around the person of Ivan Illyn, they are somewhat a parasitic power on the ruin of the NPRP, after the death of Savinkov the party lost its general direction as the Vozhd Kornilov proclaimed his unconditional support for Ivan Illyn, the NPRP under Derental followed soon as well as members of the Kadets, the ruined SRs and even esoterist Eurasianists, as the hand of the complex ideologist tread the line of numerous factions into his own power base. This is the leading faction of Russia and it would remain so until Nikolai Skoblin could no longer hold his commanding saber and among the NPRP, there are those who now rise in the rank to challenge Derental for a new Russia.

## "Republic of Siberia"

A term popularly coined after in regard to the situation in the Siberian territory after the Kolchak putsch of 1927, after the collapse of the Kolchakites and his ataman supporters of the eastern hosts, the Right SRs-led military and political underground quickly seized and regained their dominance in Siberia. As contrasts to the situation in West Russia where White Forces of the old civil war must hope to cooexist, the Rights SRs completely dominated the east. The political divide over the Right Srs working with "reactionary" parties was never lost on the SRs central committee, that the right SRs demanded a stronge government of political unity in 1937 to stabilise the collapsing political and economic structure of the Republic, for this the Siberians were officially expelled by the CC once more after their first expulsion after the Ufa conference. Turning to support General Kornilov and the former SRs Savinkov instead, forming an alliance with the General during the Kornilovite pustch. After the death of Savinkov and the dissolution of the SRs party, many more fled to the east, broke and demoralised, whats remain of the SRs regrouped in Siberia came to submit to Kornilov, an understanding was reached, in that Siberia will follow faithfully the regime as long as they would be left alone.

## Administrative Divisions

After the Patriotic Wars, the prior imperial Governorates were restablished on the conquered territories. However, due to the circumstances as well as complication in regarding to the management of former independent states now returned to Russian control, a separated sub-national division above the Governorates were created in the first year after the war, corresponding to the former independent borders was created called the Administrations.

## Military

The collective armed forces of the Russian National State is known as the Armed Forces of Russia, dividing into three major branches:

* Russian Army
	+ Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU)
	+ All-Russia National Volunteer Services (Krasno-cherniye): The national paramilitary services, including security forces, local Cossacks and minority self-defenses regiments.
* Russian Air Army
* Russian National Navy

Russian Air ArmyGRU

Gameplay: Possible Leaders

## Others

Teasers

Ministry of Reunited Territories

## Gameplay: Possible Leaders

Nikolai Skoblin
National CorporatistMikhail Levitov
National Corporatist/AutocraticArkady Krakovetsky
Authdem/Social ConservativePyotr Wrangel
Autocracy/AuthdemMikhail Drozdovsky
UltraconservativeNicholas Kalashnikoff
Social Democrat
Post-WarAnatoly Rogozhin
National Corproratism
Post-WarKliment Voroshilov
Revolutionary Socialism
Post-War