DBWI: Lenin not Assassinated

So we all know that the revolutionary and leader of the Bolshevik movement Vladimir Lenin, kicked the bucket in 1918 when Fanny Kaplan managed to plug him in the head with her pistol while he spoke at Petrograd. What would him surviving this attempt lead to? How would this affect the Civil War?
 
Well, without the expert leadership of Trotsky during the Civil War, it seems unlikely that the quick victory that the Reds achieved could be repeated, so maybe a longer, more damaging war. This could have devastating long term consequences, significantly delaying the annexation of the Ukrainian and Polish SSR's, for instance.
 
Well, without the expert leadership of Trotsky during the Civil War, it seems unlikely that the quick victory that the Reds achieved could be repeated, so maybe a longer, more damaging war. This could have devastating long term consequences, significantly delaying the annexation of the Ukrainian and Polish SSR's, for instance.

Not that help. The Reds got put down, and put down hard by the West thanks to Trotsky trying to bring revolution everywhere when he could.
 
Well, without the expert leadership of Trotsky during the Civil War, it seems unlikely that the quick victory that the Reds achieved could be repeated, so maybe a longer, more damaging war. This could have devastating long term consequences, significantly delaying the annexation of the Ukrainian and Polish SSR's, for instance.

Trotsky was always a bit overrated in my opinion. He was a great leader during the war, but his peacetime policies were somewhat anemic and his foreign policies were why the USSR was toppled until it was reinstated by people like Khruschev in the 1960s, when the West underwent a hell of a financial crisis. The one big thing I'll give him credit for is Korenization, which went a long way to instilling a stable way to be multicultural. It would also help repave the way to the Second Soviet.

Not that help. The Reds got put down, and put down hard by the West thanks to Trotsky trying to bring revolution everywhere when he could.

There's also this problem. It lead to the Diktatoriat of Russia duing the early 40's.
 
Not that help. The Reds got put down, and put down hard by the West thanks to Trotsky trying to bring revolution everywhere when he could.

While this is true, you could argue that his success in spreading the revolution in the East, which while at first unsuccessful can be seen as leading to the modern socialist block of India and China, is what allowed Communism as a whole to survive the inevitable reactionary backlash to the modern day.
 
While this is true, you could argue that his success in spreading the revolution in the East, which while at first unsuccessful can be seen as leading to the modern socialist block of India and China, is what allowed Communism as a whole to survive the inevitable reactionary backlash to the modern day.

Communism is dead. Russia is run by China, and India now, and the USSR only exist in name. Most of the SSR's broke away years again, and the ones left are only SSR's in name.
 
Communism is dead. Russia is run by China, and India now, and the USSR only exist in name. Most of the SSR's broke away years again, and the ones left are only SSR's in name.

That's what happens when the two most populous nations finally begin reaching parity with the west; it's also why the West's economy went through a downturn as they adjusted to the changes during the 60's. Communism as seen by Lenin and Trotsky was dead since the early 1950s, when China came under the Chairmanship of Zhou Enlai after Chen Duxiu bit it.

India was always more Syndicalist anyway, with Democratic Socialism, Anarcho-Communism, and Anarchism being more popular with the people than Bolshevism.
 
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