Question: How much could the russian empire wank the Cyrillic script?

[Gukpard]

The russian empire is an brutal ethno nationalist state and it's final objective culturally was to guarantee that everything under its control from Poland to Vladivostok and from Kola to Astana to eventually turn Russian culturally and ethnically.

In a scenario that the empire survives up until today, how much could them spread the use of cyrrilic?

My initial projection would be the normal borders of the russian empire, plus having an allied Yugoslavia that standardize the Serbo-Croatian under cyrrilic from Slovenia to Bulgaria, plus maybe an russian allied Pontus being forced at gun point to speak a greek with cyrrilic, and having Russia to annex the Iranian Azerbaijan and force the alphabet there.

What other places could get it? Assuming Russia overrun Hungary and places a Romanov in the throne, could them force the dialect there? What about Czechia and Slovakia? Could Russia eventually force the Finn's to accept it?

 

[Beatriz]

Cyrilic is used for Mongolian and for the Dungan Chinese OTL so it could be used for parts of China and Mongolia, and northern Iran could use Cyrilic like Tajik

 

[Lalli]

Depends what kind of state Russia is but it wouldn't be really easy task without really authotarian state. And it would be really hard enforce Finns and Poles to use Cyrillic since they have already used Latin script already centuries and are going to oppose such attempts.

Probably at best about same what OTL USSR managed to do.

 

[Bulgarian Lion]

It depends on how far he can spread Orthodox Christianity or whether Kievan Rus under the influence of preserved Bulgaria will accept Catholicism during the Great Schism of 1054 - because the Croats used Glagolitic until the 18th century, so for the first option we have to participates in the topics "maximally large Russian Empire" and "The Russian Empire survives", and for the second - "Catholic Russia", "Catholic Bulgaria" and if there is one - "Bulgaria does not fall under Byzantine rule".

 

[Bulgarian Lion]

My initial projection would be the normal borders of the russian empire, plus having an allied Yugoslavia that standardize the Serbo-Croatian under cyrrilic from Slovenia to Bulgaria,

This is impossible, because in communist Yugoslavia, due to the economic and cultural superiority of the Croats and Slovenes, the Serbs began to accept the Latin alphabet, and more than us Bulgarians after the fall of communism - for example, leading Serbian newspapers are still in it today, as I have even seen material in the Latin script, calling on the Serbs to "keep" the Cyrillic script that my homeland Bulgaria gave them in the Middle Ages, while in Bulgaria, thank God, there is not a single newspaper in the Bulgarian language using the Latin script. That is, for Yugoslavia, you had to propose the opposite - during the Second World War, its northern Catholic half would be captured by the Anglo-Americans and a Western Bloc state would be formed there, so that in the Orthodox parts of Yugoslavia, the Cyrillic alphabet (actually the Bulgarian script) would be the only one used writing.

 

[Gukpard]

Depends what kind of state Russia is but it wouldn't be really easy task without really authotarian state. And it would be really hard enforce Finns and Poles to use Cyrillic since they have already used Latin script already centuries and are going to oppose such attempts.

Probably at best about same what OTL USSR managed to do.

This is post 1900, so the PoD is under Nicholas II.

Nicholas II was very authoritarian, he just didn't have the skill like his dad had, so we might replace him with other tsar or has his government invite ultranationalists.