What does the Soviet-Japanese war of 1931 look like?
Bruce
Dunno. A wildcard would be a Sino-Japanese alliance; but I don't know enough about the Soviet military in the early 1930s to say who'd win.
What does the Soviet-Japanese war of 1931 look like?
Bruce
Dunno. A wildcard would be a Sino-Japanese alliance; but I don't know enough about the Soviet military in the early 1930s to say who'd win.
One thing to remember is Trotsky's own ideas. Not only was he really into exporting communism, he also had a theory of "perpetual revolution" wherein the government should be replaced every few decades. This is one of the reasons he was exiled.
Assuming that Trotsky sticks to his morals, you wouldn't really see a dictatorship rise in the USSR; at least not under him.