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'''''Reds!''''' is an [[Alternate History]] ongoing series being published at [[AlternatehistoryAlternateHistory.com]]. The series is divided into multiple timeline arcs. The first, from which the series name is derived, is titled Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline, and focuses on the events leading up to a socialist revolution in the United States during [[The Great Depression]]. The second, A Red Dawn, chronicles the early development of of the new Union of American Socialist Republics, and the alternate [[World War Two]].

The first depicts an alternate history in which President [[William McKinley]] was not assassinated, and in the resulting political climate (which marginalized Progressive reformers due to [[Theodore Roosevelt]] never becoming president), socialism becomes much more popular in the United States (additionally, several important schisms that occurred in the socialist movement in our timeline did not occur in this one). After a much more brutal [[World War OneI]] (made more brutal, ironically, by the well-meaning attempts of internationalists like [[William Howard Taft]] to build stable international alliances), the American populace is radicalized and heavily divided, a powder keg ready to explode, until the Great Depression sparks a revolution in the United States.

The first thread in the series, chronicling the events up to the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics' government, can be found [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=122672 here], and the second, chronicling post-Revolution events, can be found [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=148698 here]. The scenario is in the process of being rewritten and the rewrites of the first part of the timeline can be found [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=168330 here]. A collection of the canonical materials of the universe, which lacks the copious in-thread commentary from both the creators and other participants but probably makes for much easier reading, has also been compiled [https://web.archive.org/web/20130213053149/http://fools-gold.org/aaron/reds/ here], but it is currently over a year out of date.

* [[Alternate History]]: Complete with excerpts of the universe's [[AlternatehistoryAlternateHistory.com]].

* [[One -Federation Limit]]: Defied. In the post-[[WW 2II]] world, the three superpowers are the Franco-British Union, the Union of American Socialist Republics, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. And that's just the three top dogs.