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Post by Otto Kretschmer on May 10, 2024 9:48:39 GMT
If Lev Trotsky succeeded Lenin, would his tule be as brutal as that of Stalin or considerably less so? Would the Great Purge, the Gulags and the Holodomor be avoided?
What I can say for sure is that there would be more support for communist movements worldwide due to Trotsky's belief in permanent revolution The Red Army should also receivr more funding due to this, at least in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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Post by lordroel on May 10, 2024 9:55:17 GMT
If Lev Trotsky succeeded Lenin, would his tule be as brutal as that of Stalin or considerably less so? Would the Great Purge, the Gulags and the Holodomor be avoided? What I can say for sure is that there would be more support for communist movements worldwide due to Trotsky's belief in permanent revolution The Red Army should also receivr more funding due to this, at least in the 1920s and early 1930s. Is Stalin death ore alive, if alive, Trotsky reign will be short. |
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Post by Otto Kretschmer on May 10, 2024 10:10:56 GMT
If Lev Trotsky succeeded Lenin, would his tule be as brutal as that of Stalin or considerably less so? Would the Great Purge, the Gulags and the Holodomor be avoided? What I can say for sure is that there would be more support for communist movements worldwide due to Trotsky's belief in permanent revolution The Red Army should also receivr more funding due to this, at least in the 1920s and early 1930s. Is Stalin death ore alive, if alive, Trotsky reign will be short. He's dead then... |
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Post by Max Sinister on May 11, 2024 22:03:14 GMT
It seems that things may become only better.
We may see more attempts to meddle in the politics of other states, like the SU did in Germany and Bulgaria in 1923. Worldwide revolution and all that. Doesn't mean they'd be successful.
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Post by stevep on May 12, 2024 14:31:24 GMT
I would say that if Trotsky wins the succession battle and Stalin has an accident then the USSR might have a distinctly shorter life. Trotsky was a markedly better military leader but he seems to have been a lot more ideologically driven. It was his idea for the no war no peace approach in late1917 early 1918 where the regime refused to make peace but also made no serious attempt to make war either. [Which might not have been possibly anyway as the Bolshevik propaganda against the war which had done so much to undermine the Provisional Government meant the army was collapsing]. This is what made possible the massive German advances before the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Similarly as Otto said Trotsky was far more in favour of world revolution so a Trotsky USSR is likely to allocate markedly more resources to such actions rather than building up the economic base and prompting more opposition from the neighbouring powers. True he might not be as ruthlessly murderous against ordinary people rather than figures he thinks are in his way but I wouldn't rely on that either without markedly better knowledge of his and his character.
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