Pining for Nixonland: A Colloborative TL (1925-2012)

August 5 1926: Charles Stewart is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, replacing William Lyon Mackenzie King (whose resignation was a condition of Progressive Party support for a motion of no confidence against Arthur Meighen).

September 26 1926: Following the election victory for the Liberal-Progressive Fusion, Charles Stewart becomes Prime Minister of Canada. Canada's new Minister of Customs and Excise, Robert Forke, begins dismantling the country's protectionist tariffs.

October 11 1927: With both parties increasing their seats in the Irish Free State's recent general election, Fianna Fail and the Irish Labour Party form a coalition government under Eamon de Valera. The peaceful transition of power surprises some but bolsters confidence in the still nascent democracy. In return for supporting FF's goal of "republicanising" the constitution, Labour is able to switch some government support from agriculture to developing a new industrial base. However, the withholding of land annuity payments to the British leads to a tariff war.

April 4 1928: After the fall of Beijing to the National Revolutionary Army, Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin begins negotiating a truce with the Kuomintang. Manchuria remains seperate from the rest of China, under Zhang's rule.

September-October 1928: Angered by Trotsky's continued agitation for more rapid industrialisation and alarmed that his sabre-rattling threatens the alliance between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang, Bukharin orchestrates his expulsion from first the Central Committee and then the Communist Party, and finally forces him into exile in Turkey.
 
I swear, people on this board have the most one-dimensional view of Trotsky.

Here's the simple fact. Without a single person dominating the party, like Stalin managed IOTL, there's going to be no way to expel Trotsky and exile him, especially when the ban on factions has been reversed.
 
I swear, people on this board have the most one-dimensional view of Trotsky.

Here's the simple fact. Without a single person dominating the party, like Stalin managed IOTL, there's going to be no way to expel Trotsky and exile him, especially when the ban on factions has been reversed.

But as you know, the chances that he seized the control oi the Party and USSR are not important too, it seems. He could be exiled or... worse, AS Staline, if a third party won the power strugle, ya know...
 
I swear, people on this board have the most one-dimensional view of Trotsky.
Here's the simple fact. Without a single person dominating the party, like Stalin managed IOTL, there's going to be no way to expel Trotsky and exile him, especially when the ban on factions has been reversed.

Stalin wasn't responsible for Trotsky's personality. He's still going to be in sharp disagreement with much of the Central Committee - most obviously, Trotsky's continuing drive for world revolution is going to clash with Bukharin's desire for consolidation and peaceful coexistence. And if Bukharin was afraid of Stalin's ambition, he's going to be no less fearful of Trotsky's.

Procedurally... you could be right, I don't know. I saw Trotsky's foreign policy as giving sufficient cause to justify his expulsion and exile (he was liable to sink all of the Soviet Union's few allies and drag it into a war). But I can equally say, there's simply no way even a Strasserite Nazi party is going to form an alliance with the KPD (beyond co-ordinating walk-outs and motions of no confidence in the Reichstag).
 
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