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From the Trotskyist Nation: Computer, Hammer and Sickle
An alternate universe where I attempt to create a cybernetic socialist USSR from a Trotskyist USSR.
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Now, establishing a Trotskyist USSR is easy enough. Based on my research, Trotsky would be either elected or he demands Stalin to give up his position. If Stalin refuses, Trotsky can simply coup him with the Red Army, considering he had that power in early to middle 1923.
Appreciated if someone would give me the possible candidates for post-Trotsky administration in the 1960s, 1970s and then 1980s-1990s. Perhaps it's mostly the Left Communists, but the "Right" Communists make a comeback in either the 1970s or 1980s?
I'll be mainly focusing on post-Trotsky USSR, and I expect a big boom in science, especially political because Trotsky is more "world communism" than Stalin. I'm not sure if cybernetics is established in 1960s as there is an OTL basis for this: Project OGAS, or the 80s where everything is kinda going to shit and they need a solution to deal with the inefficiency of the somewhat bureaucratic economy, but by then I'm kind of worried cybernetics becomes obscure.
Maybe it goes like OTL from the beginning, but ends up with OGAS being funded, then if the USSR's economy does begin to break down sometime in the 1980s-1990s, OGAS might be updated, given fresh new faces and USSR turns cybernetic socialist?
Problem is, with Trotskyism market socialism would be a lot more common. Perhaps the hardliners are either in control of the KGB or not, but anyway, go Stalin mode on the market socialists?
Then, you'd have two candidates, one being cybernetic socialism and pretty obscure compared to the other candidate, which is either status quo... or something. Inspired from Berg's radio talks, Kitov could bring cybernetics into the spotlight?