Could a Trotsky Wank be possible?

My idea is Trotsky takes power rather than Stalin. Now, industrialization would still happen. Even Lenin in the end said it had to happen and Stalin i heard stole Trotskys plans. My idea is all Soviet republics remain loyal due to Trotsky's different philosophy. He then proceeds to invade the Middle East later, Europe, Japan, and China, starting an alternate "world war." Feasibility? If not, what would be the closest he could do.
 
My idea is Trotsky takes power rather than Stalin. Now, industrialization would still happen. Even Lenin in the end said it had to happen and Stalin i heard stole Trotskys plans. My idea is all Soviet republics remain loyal due to Trotsky's different philosophy. He then proceeds to invade the Middle East later, Europe, Japan, and China, starting an alternate "world war." Feasibility? If not, what would be the closest he could do.

It is ridiculously unlikely and Trotsky wouldn't be launching mass invasions like this if a choir of angels did lift him up to supreme power.

Trotsky was never a serious contender for power in the Soviet Union.

The best I can come to making your proposal happen is for Trotsky to actually be brain damaged:

OK, here's my try at a constructive answer:

Trotsky gets shot in the head during one of the late battles of the Russian civil war, making him a great hero of the revolution and a non-threatening brain-damaged idiot.

After Lenin dies, to avoid a struggle for power, the near-vegetable is made the figure head leader. Stalin, in this world, is still powerful but feels comfortable enough with the arrangement to follow a more collegial path.

In the late 30s, political instability in Germany leads to a military dictatorship with a rubber-stamp conservative dominated Reichstag. This militarist Germany goes about reclaiming the Rhineland, agitating for anschluss, trying to undermine France, Poland and the Soviet Union, and generally being an annoying revanchist power, but not to the point where Britain is repelled, leading to Germany and Britain working to roll back Versailles together. The British, of course, aren't actually friends of Germany, but to the Soviet Union, it looks like they are facing an Anglo-German capitalist alliance slowly building up to destroy them.

The politburo of the Soviet Union, except for the idiot figure head, is inspecting a new steel mill in 1939, when a freak industrial accident kills them all. The USSR is now in the hands of a brain dead moron, and proceeds to act like it, launching an invasion to destroy the German murderers of their beloved revolutionary leaders.

My less constructive answer:

Trotsky's ideology is heavily misunderstood. 1) Because maligning him was a hobby of the Stalinists, the Democratic Socialists and the anti-Socialists. 2) Because Trotsky himself started advocating very different policies when he was outsted from political power in the USSR.

His ideas on "continuous revolution" actually added up to being more in favour of greater openness to the West and greater trade with the West than Stalin's ideology. It was not an ideological position that committed Trotsky to suicidal wars.

Equally, Stalin's "socialism in one country" did not mean that Stalin was not absolutely committed to spreading the revolution. Rather, Stalin was saying "let's grow strong here so we can support the revolution elsewhere in the world when it does happen".

Furthermore: Trotsky has a snowball's chance in hell of becoming leader of the USSR. Yes, you can trace contorted paths where events all add up just right to putting Trotsky in charge. But honestly, Nick Clegg had as much chance of becoming Prime Minister of the UK. Also, in the incredibly unlikely event of Trotsky gaining power, 1) there's no way in hell Trotsky has as much power as Stalin, he simply does not have the talents required to be a powerful dictator, let alone talents that compare to Stalin's in this field, 2) Trotsky wasn't a suicidal idiot.

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