Stalin Dies in London in 1907?

I was just reading Andrew Marrs The Making of Modern Britain, and in the chapter on trade unions and the growth of Labour pre-WWI it descibes a meeting between leading communists (Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin etc) in London in 1907.

Apparently Stalin, already a hardened gangster, almost got beaten up in a pub by some dock workers. Let's say the the fight goes bad and Stalin ends up dead. What happens? It's early enough to greatly change how the Russian Revolution happens, but I don't know enough to properly consider what might happen.
 

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ILet's say the the fight goes bad and Stalin ends up dead. What happens?

Many a million Soviet(Russian or of provincial stock does not matter) counter-revolutionaries, or "reactionaries", alongside with a good portion of good Communists are spared a death they didn't deserve, at the hands of a cruel regime.

^^No, not really.

I think the Revolution would occur. If nothing else Stalin was still a henchman in 1907, Lenin was calling the shots. Plus there were many more cold-blooded, murdering oafs waiting in line to fill Stalin's shoes as right hand/resident bully.

Although if you go it a step further and also butterfly Lenin's untimely death away, then you might see serious divergences.

Lenin's dream wasn't a lasting dictatorship like the USSR turned out be under his successors. I think he would have carried out the cleansing of all potential political opponents, throughout the USSR, he would consolidate the Revolutionary regime, and then he'd call off the "dictatorship of the proletariat". The USSR would end up some sort of Worker's Republic...the operative word being "republic"...

Interesting divergences occur when/if Trotsky manages to capitalise on Stalin's death and gets to consolidate his position as a leader among the first communists. If this guy was the successor to Lenin...I really don't know what could have happened...I happen to regard the guy as a visionary but he might not turn out to be the ideal leader if he ever gets a real taste of absolute power...

Anyway, that's what I thought of far...
 
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