A Marxist Balkans in 1890

What if Balkan states had escaped Ottoman rule as communist states in the 1890s?

They would more plausibly be Marxist or revolutionary-socialist states, and their ideological differences would create unstable regional politics.

The counterfactual is framed as a Marxist or revolutionary-socialist Balkans, with later Leninist and Stalinist systems kept out of the 1890 setting. Serbia, Romania, and Greece are proposed as examples of states taking this course after Ottoman rule. Russia's claims of ethnic affinity with Balkan peoples would then compete with substantial ideological and political differences. The panel expects conflict, although it does not develop a detailed sequence of alliances or campaigns. Its terminology discussion distinguishes historical movements from the later political systems that a modern reader might associate with them.