What if Trotsky was the leader of the Soviet Union?

[germanbread]

What would happen if Trotsky was the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenins death instead of Stalin?

[lordroel]

Oct 4, 2022 14:59:17 GMT germanbread said:

What would happen if Trotsky was the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenins death instead of Stalin?

First welcome aboard, second it is nice to now what a person thinks when posting a new thread regarding the question he/she ask.

Having done that, is Trotsky going to be as hard as Stalin in governing the Soviet Union.

[American hist]

Trosky tendon to offend people but he was known as A great thinker. I could imagine Trosky being smart with his leadership and him having a very active foreign policy. Stalin just killed everyone and forced mass industrialization. Stain no longer becomes the Soviet dictator than Russia will enjoy her golden age of fairytales in children Literature

[gillan1220]

Trotsky would start supporting communist movements around the world since he envisioned a communist globe after a world revolution. This will start an earlier Cold War with the Western powers.

[Max Sinister]

@american Thinker: Offending how? By being too smart?

I used to think that he was a great strategist. But that doesn't mean he could conquer western Europe like nothing, even if he wants to spread the world revolution.

[American hist]

Max Sinister Trotsky Struck people as being arrogant,but honestly he may have been autistic. He wasn’t as contriving as Stalin though

[Zyobot]

Never fleshed it out and still have research ahead of me, but I actually had a TL idea on this that I'll repeat here:

(Spoiler alert: Sidelining Stalin isn't the panacea most people think it'd be.)

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{Trotskyist USSR}Leon Trotsky prevails in the power struggle following Lenin’s death, outmaneuvering (or at least, out-lucking) Stalin and becoming leader of the Soviet Union. Far from the martyred exile he was IOTL, the Trotsky who takes over here is anything but a victim, setting fires across the continent as he incites a “World Revolution!” to overthrow the capitalist powers and terrorize the bourgeoise into submission. Naturally, this means bankrolling far-left terrorists and the armed wings of communist parties throughout Europe in thousand-fold reprises of the Spartacus Uprising or Revolutionary Catalonia, with conservative/reactionary crackdowns not far behind as the Francos, Mussolinis, and (worst of all!) Hitlers of Europe crush the uprisings and restore the “law and order” that the liberal democracies failed to affirm. Simultaneously, the USSR itself—not content to simply arm and sponsor workers’ revolts and proletariat supremacy abroad—rolls into Eastern and Central Europe to assist its comrades in Poland, Finland, and their assorted neighbors. All in all, an orgy of border-gore and internal conflict that pairs off a continent-spanning Spanish Civil War in the West with the Red Army launching a reverse Barbarossa from the East, turning the Second Great War from a sequel to the first into a chaotic, pan-European bloodbath all its own.

[Max Sinister]

Trotsky always said that he wanted to spread the World Revolution, instead of Stalin's "Socialism in one country". That'd be the start.