One (potentially fatal) day in the life of Ilych

An old soc.history.what-if post of mine post of mine, based on https://books.google.com/books?id=N9mbl_xbWpkC&pg=PT436

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Rather weirdly, the 1918 Left SR uprising posed the greatest physical danger to Lenin after it had been defeated!

On July 7, after the Left SRs' former headquarters had been captured, Lenin decided to visit it, in order to get some idea how the uprising had been organized. As Lenin's car was making its way, a group of armed men sprang on to the road and shouted for the car to stop. Lenin instructed his chauffeur, Stepan Gil to comply--but before the car stopped, the armed men started to fire on it. Luckily for Lenin, the men turned out to be Bolsheviks, and he let them off with a schoolmasterly admonition to be more careful in the future.

This was not the end of Lenin's troubles: later in the day his car was again stopped. A semi-official patrol of youths demanded to see his identity papers and decided that the document stating he was Sovnarkom Chairman was invalid! He was arrested and taken to the nearest police station, where the confusion was cleared up. Lenin and the police officer felt free to laugh about the incident--but what if the patrol had been a little more trigger-happy? (One has to remember that Lenin's appearance was not all that familiar to many Russians at the time. Only in January 1918 had the first official portrait of him appeared.)

But here is the incredible part: Lenin was in danger a third time that day! Shots were fired at the car on the way back from the police station. Gil put his foot down hard on the accelerator and the two men arrived back at the Kremlin. It had been an exhausting day...

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A footnote to that post: Stepan Gil outlived his boss by 42 years. https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/30/archives/lenins-chauffeur-stepan-gil-77-dies.html
 
Lenin gunned down by Bolsheviks, a student militia, and careless driving.

That's a hell of a day! Though I wonder what the fallout would be. Further crackdowns against political enemies are all but a certainty.
 
I would not be surprised if the Bolsheviks fracture over this, and you eventually end up with a Moscow- and a Petrograd-based faction.

Old image of mine (replace Left SR with whatever name you fancy):
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