[Forum Game] White, Blue and Red: A Russian Revolution Forum Game

[LatinKaiser]

White, Blue, and Red
A Russian Revolution Forum Game

The Romanov dynasty celebrated its 300th year of rule on 6 March, 1913, in a ceremony full of splendor. The tercentenary of Romanov rule was accompanied by a wave of monarchist support across the Russian Empire. However, 4 years and 9 days later, the reigning Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Nicholas II Romanov, abdicated the Russian throne in favour of his brother Michael Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia. However, republican sentiment has taken hold of Russia, and a Provisional Government led by Prince Georgy Lvov. Only three days earlier, on 12 March, the Petrograd Soviet was established by disaffected soldiers and workers in the city. As internal division plagues the Russian government, the German Army continues its campaign against the disheartened Russian forces. With the situation at the front worsening each day, and with separatist elements in Finland and Ukraine already arming for war, the political factions in Russia are hard-pressed to reverse the decline and breakup of their nation.

Welcome to White, Blue, and Red: A Russian Revolution Forum Game! This game will focus on the politics of the Russian Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet. However, warfare will also play a role in the game, in the form of battles, rebellions, and coups. Players will take on the role of a historical character or will create their own character. Characters are divided into two different groups: Politicians and Militarists. Politicians are leaders and members of political organizations (examples include Alexander Kerensky, Vladimir Lenin, and Grand Duke Michael Romanov), and they can engage in the affairs of government. Militarists are military leaders (such as Lavr Kornilov and Aleksei Brusilov) and they engage in warfare. Both Politicians and Militarists can influence both governmental and military affairs, but each has a primary function. For example, the Provisional Government can dismiss generals, and powerful military commanders can rebel or attempt a coup.

Laws and Orders
In White, Blue, and Red, politicians can propose and vote on bills to create laws, sign treaties, and set national policies. This is all handled in-character and in-thread. Militarists, on the other hand, will send war orders to the War GM, Korona. War Orders from Militarists, will, as per usual, be decided by a series of rolls.

Updates
Updates will usually cover one month of time. However, there may be mini updates for certain important events, such as a coup.

Deadline
The deadline for legislative procedures and orders will be set by the GM, but it will usually be around 0:00 GMT on Saturdays. However, this is subject to change.

Coldfront
While not mandatory, IRC is a good tool to use for negotiation and planning. The coldfront channel for this game is #RedWhiteandBlue. Here are instructions for joing the channel:
1. Go to coldfront.net
2. Create a screen name (using your forum name is helpful, but certainly not mandatory)
3. Type in the client "/join #RedWhiteandBlue" without the quotation marks
4. Welcome to IRC!​

 

[LatinKaiser]

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[LatinKaiser]

Reserved for stuff.

 

[LatinKaiser]

Reserved just in case.

 

[Dadarian]

Name: Colonel Boris Artyomovic Dulov, OSG 2nd Class
Date of Birth: September 12th, 1869 (48)
Occupation: Colonel in the Imperial Army
Position: Militarist

Bio: Born the second son of the now (relatively) poor House of Dulov, he took the traditional route of joining the army in 1886 while his older brother Yuri inherited the barony and his younger brother Artyom joined the clergy. His father's connections allowed him to enter the Officer Corps immediately, whereas he was promoted to the position of Captain and bounced between duties in Turkestan, Kronstadt, Warsaw and St. Petersburg (where he attended [and graduated with honours] from the Nicholas General Staff Academy) until being transferred to the Manchurian Front in 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War, he served under the First Manchurian Army, and came to national attention between 29th and 30th of August, 1904 for bravely repelling intense Japanese assaults on the railroad junction of Liaoyang. One of the only examples of Russian success during the war, Dulov was honoured by receiving the Order of Saint George, Second Class from Tsar Nicholas II along with a promotion to Colonel.

During the Revolution of 1905, Colonel Dulov was commissioned with putting down the naval mutiny in Vladivostok, which he did successfully. However when the Trans-Baikal Railroad was seized by strikers, Dulov was tasked on retrieving it "at all costs". Using a rather ingenious scheme of having strawmen drop off large amounts of vodka at the striker's camp, Dulov quickly stormed the camp in the middle of the night. He then defended the Trans-Siberian railroad during the rest of the revolution, staying out of the limelight. He was stationed in Vladivostok during the course of the First World War, forgotten and discontent.

Spoiler

Titles: Ensign - (1886-1888)
Staff Captain - (1888-1890)
Captain - (1890-1892)
Alumni of Nicholas General Staff Academy - (1892-present)
Major - (1892-1904)
Lieutenant Colonel - (1904-1905)
Colonel - (1905-present)
Knight of the Order of Saint George [Second Class] - (1904-present)

 

[DensleyBlair]

N. V. Nekrasov
Никола́й Виссарио́нович Некра́сов

Name: Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov
Date of Birth: November 1 1871
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Occupation: Politician

Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov [Russian: Никола́й Виссарио́нович Некра́сов] (November 1 [O.S. October 20] 1871 – XX XXXX XXXX) was a Russian liberal politician.

Born as the son of a priest, Nekrasov took a degree in transportation engineering in 1902 before travelling abroad for his graduate studies. Upon returning to Russia in 1904, he held a post as a professor of engineering at the Tomsk Engineering Institute. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, Nekrasov helped to found the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party (or "Kadets"), whose regional offices he headed in Yalta, in the Crimea. As a member of the Kadets, he was elected to the 3rd and 4th State Dumas in 1907 and 1912, respectively.

A member of the Kadets' central committee between 1909 and 1912, Nekrasov consistently found himself inhabiting the left-of-centre in terms of his political views. After the Lena massacre of 1912, Nekrasov delivered an interpellation to the government in which he denounced their support of capital interests over those of the labour movement. Later in the year, he came out in favour of using the Duma as a means of generating anti-governmental propaganda in opposition to the Tsarist government of the day, feeling that true "constructive work" was futile while autocratic ministries were in power. In 1915, Nekrasov resigned from the Kadets' central committee over his opposition towards the majority's support of giving the government a blank cheque during the First World War.

Elected Deputy Chairman of the Duma in 1916, Nekrasov became increasingly convinced that Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarists were leading the country towards military defeat and further revolutions. To this end, he began plotting with the Octobrist former Chairman of the Duma Alexander Guchkov, Alexander Kerensky, A. I. Konovalov and the industrialist Mikhail Tereschenko to force the abdication of the tsar in favour of his underage son Alexei. The tsar's more liberal brother, Grand Duke Michael, would become regent. Their plans were made moot, however, with the February Revolution of 1917.

Following the revolution, Nekrasov became a member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma.

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Positions

Political:

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (1916–1917)

Party Political:

Member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party (1909–1912)

 

[Comm Cody]

Name: Alexei Krenshov
Date of Birth: 24 October 1871
Place of Birth: Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire
Occupation: Militarist

Bio: Alexei Krenshov was the youngest of four kids and the only son. His father was a well known solider, rising from the rank of Cossack up to Cossack Captain, being involved in court intrigue. When his father died, Krenshov was a Cossack Cornet and was quickly shuffled up the ranks. During the Russo-Japanese war, Krenshov distinguished himself as an officer, fighting at Yalu, Motien Pass, and Mukden. During the 1905 revolution, he was instrumental trying to clear the Trans-Siberian Railroad, although his forces were repulsed, leading to Colonel Boris Artyomovic Dulov becoming the new commanding officer of his forces. At the outbreak of WW1, his unit was heavily involved on the Austrian front and Romanian front, in which he was wounded and awarded the order of St. George fourth class. He is currently serving in the 8th Field Army in the south, he is a stanch supporter of Cossack autonomy and Russian Autocracy.

 

[LatinKaiser]

GM Note: Signups have been closed for some time now. As such, new players will not be admitted.

 

[AzagalTheGreat]

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Cody could take my place.I would be subbing out anyway.

 

[Imperator1993]

Name: Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov
Date of Birth: 18 August 1870
Place of Birth: Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Empire
Occupation: Militarist

 

[Maxwell500]

Name: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov
Date of Birth: 2 November 1861 (55)
Occupation: Minister-President of the Russian Provisional Government
Position: Politician

 

[al-Aziz]

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Do we have to post here again to sign up?

 

[LatinKaiser]

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[Nax24]

Name: Felix Dzerzhinsky
Date of Birth: September 11, 1877
Place of Birth: Moscow
Position: Politician

 

[firelordsky]

Name: Leopold Maximilian Joseph Maria Arnulf, Prinz von Bayern
Date of Birth: 9 February 1846
Place of Birth: München, Bayern
Occupation: Militarist

 

[Tufto]

Name: Lobsang Toka

Age: 34 (born 30th January 1883)

Role: Politician.

Bio: A respected monk and political leader in Tuva, Lobsang Toka was recently elected by the Tuvans to be their representative in Petrograd. While certain members of the Provisional government (and a large number of irate Russian politicians in the Uryankhay Krai) opposed this, he was granted the position of Representative of the Tuvan People to the Provisional Government, in an attempt to signify a new, open-minded Russia, both within the state and to the outside world. Lobsang's long-term goals are to give Tuva a degree of self-rule within the new state, and to curb Russian settlement, although he is a firm opponent of independence, believing it to be untenable. For now, he has pledged loyalty to the Kadets, but he is truly loyal to his own people and will support whoever will give them the best deal.

Lobsang is generally seen as a curious outsider, as the natural racism prevalent in the capital still lingers. Nevertheless, his cheery demeanour, intelligent and Russian-educated mind and hard working attitude are slowly gaining him acceptance in certain quarters, and he stands poised to change the lot of the Tuvan people forever.