leon trotsky

In 1913 Hitler,Trotsky and Stalin were in Vienna. They visited the same cafe. What if Lenin and Mussolini also went there while got blown up a revolutionary ? I guess the October revolution fails. So Russia remains in WW1 preventing the Spring Offensive. No CCP either. While communism remains a...

What if Huey Long escape assassination while Roosevelt failed to avoid his assassination? What if Chamberlain advised the king to pick Lord Halifax instead Churchill become the Prime Minister? What if Trotsky win over Stalin in the power struggle of USSR?

What if the succession of Lenin had led to a Trotsky/Stalin split that became much more entrenched in the intelligentsia. In OTL Trotsky had little opposition but Stalin successfully maneuvered to become leader of the USSR. However instead of the USSR maintaining its territorial unity what if...

August 30, 1918. Czar Nicholas II has been dead for six weeks. His former empire is awash in a state of civil war between the Bolshevik Red Army struggling to hold on to the shrinking Russian industrial heartland, while the Allied-backed White Movement advances. On this day, Communist leader...

If you're wondering about the title, a few months back I made a thread for explaining the backstory for an alternate-history map I made, the link to which you can find in my signature below; one of these PoDs had Leon Trotsky move directly to France instead of Turkey after his initial exile, and...

I assume that for the Bolsheviks to not rise to power the Russian Provisional Government decides to not continue the war against Germany, but how likely is this? What would be the affects of a social democratic Russian Republic in the twentieth century? Would Russia become a stronger nation...