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Brest-Litovsk never happens, Lenin is assassinated by a right-wing officer, the Soviets remain a multi-party system of socialist parties and the people who take power from Lenin want to keep it that way, maybe Rykov or someone uncharismatic, the Bolsheviks lose some popularity as the soviet...

Cohen's book is definitely a worthwhile read. Pretty sure some Kaiserriech Dev read it and that's why Bukharin is important in that mod. Another interesting work, if you want to know about the early left wing of the Bolshevik party of which Bukharin played an important role, is Ronald Kowalski's...

Not really, it was generally a political move. I'm trying to remember, will check when I get back home, but I'm pretty sure a couple of the left communists resigned over Brest-Litovsk and never really recovered their positions of power again. I'll compile some of the examples if I have time...

Problem with that is Respect has been a party specifically formed in opposition to the Iraq war and Labour's position within it so a coalition would be difficult to say the least. I imagine in this scenario Respect is realistically looking for 3rd party status.

It's entirely possible that the more left wing trade unions (RMT, CWU, FBU) could support Respect candidates, as the RMT did Tommy Sheridan, leading to conflict with Labour and Respect gaining major trade union backing. The RMT ended up supporting TUSC, after all, but Bob Crow had some weird...

Stalin was a middling theoretician at best. His only work of note was on the National Question and he basically wrote that with Bukharin's help with the general details already laid out by Lenin - in fact, a lot of his theoretical contributions were co-written with Bukharin. Stalin gained an...

Like, I agree that the Deustcher/Carr school of Trotsky being the only alternative to Stalin is false but equally I feel that you've swung back the other way in saying it's next to impossible. Stalin occupied a centrally important administrative role that helped him accrue personal power but...

The October Revolution was, ostensibly, a multi-party effort headed by the Bolsheviks but including the Left SRs and the International Mensheviks. Of course, only the Bolsheviks had a coherent enough organisation and the political will and they essentially dominated, and then the Brest-Litovsk...

He gives a really good comprehensive look and is far more detached and clinical than most people give him credit for but because of his, obvious, personal involvement there's some underlying biases. One thing that he is correct about is his damning assessment of the tsarist government and its...