During the Red counteroffensive on Tsaritsyn, Josef Stalin is killed in the fighting. Now what?
During the Red counteroffensive on Tsaritsyn, Josef Stalin is killed in the fighting. Now what?
During the Red counteroffensive on Tsaritsyn, Josef Stalin is killed in the fighting. Now what?
Trotsky may take over and probably destroys the USSR trying to spread the revolution. If he doesn't there are several other important members that might rule by committee, probably manages a middle ground of cultivating the revolution between Stalinist excess and Trotskyist permanent revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism
I wish I knew; I know very little about 1920s Soviet politics.Wasn't Trotsky disliked by most of the party due to his terrible people skills? Man wasn't really a politician, I think its unlikely that he could take the top spot after Lenin's death.
I think it more likely that a collective leadership succeeds Lenin, and pursues middle-ground policies similar to what you describe at the end there.
Question is, who would this collective Bolshevik leadership consist of?
Lenin died of a stroke on 21 January 1924. Following Lenin's death, a power struggle began, which involved the following seven Politburo members:[26] Nikolai Bukharin, Lev Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tomsky, Leon Trotsky, and Grigory Zinoviev.
Wasn't Trotsky disliked by most of the party due to his terrible people skills? Man wasn't really a politician, I think its unlikely that he could take the top spot after Lenin's death.
I think it more likely that a collective leadership succeeds Lenin, and pursues middle-ground policies similar to what you describe at the end there.
Question is, who would this collective Bolshevik leadership consist of?
Trotsky had the army- that's usually enough. Just ask Pinochet and Allende
I wish I knew; I know very little about 1920s Soviet politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Rise_to_power
Nikolai Bukharin, Lev Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tomsky, Leon Trotsky, and Grigory Zinoviev.