trotskyism

The PoD is simple, a few weeks following Lenin's own death Trotsky trips and falls down a flight of stairs. It wasn't an assassination, guy genuinely died in a random accident. -Effects on internal Soviet politics in the 1920s and 30s without Trotsky? -No Trotsky as the most prominent leftist...

The challenge is not to turn the US into a Trotskyist state, but for Trotskyism to become a mainstream ideology that serves as an alternative to Soviet-style communism and can be legitimately debated on in elections? Washington doesn't have to support, they just need to see it as the lesser of...

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...

On December 1, 1934, Manuel Pérez Treviño, general and leader of the Mexican Revolution, took office as President of Mexico. As the candidate of the National Revolutionary Party (PNR), Treviño's election was a foregone conclusion. It was politically impossible for its patron, Plutarco Elías...

Let's say Lenin's testament gets out (as well as Lenin criticizing Stalin out loud in front of witnesses), thrashing Stalin's reputation and path to power but without anyone being willing to support Trotsky either. When Lenin dies the USSR goes a few years without a recognizable face but...

I made a timeline in which the Soviet Union wins the cold war. The PoD happens in August 1918. In our timeline, Vladimir Lenin was shot after giving a public speech. However, in this timeline he manages to dodge the bullet. Because Lenin never gets shot, he lives long enough to kick Stalin out...

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, active in Sri Lanka since British Dominion times, has a lengthy history, and is notable for being one of the few parties in the "third world" of mass appeal who openly praised Soviet dissident figure Leon Trotsky. For most of their history, they were even larger than...

The Way the Wind Blows The Collapse of Western Capitalism and the Second Cold War "History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away." - Chairmen Tariq Ali "The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man." - Huey P. Newton Prologue The Unexpected Mikhail...