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This has been alluded to several times in various, Bukarin takes power, No Stalin threads and the like.

However they tend to get bogged down at the starting ground. So take the simple route, Lenin publicly denounces Stalin as a danger prior to his death, Trotsky remains a loner between the Old Bolshevik Left and the Right of Rykov and Bukharin. Trotsky is killed, exiled, sent to run a tractor factory, what ever.

Let's say we have a Right-dominated Politburo oligarchy take shape by the late 1920s. Economically, socially, and geopolitically how do things change? No forced colletivisation is the obvious one, so a more agrarian, populous USSR that never becomes the mass grain importer of OTL.

Other things:
Relationship with other nations, Communist parties and the left in general

Industrialisation: Would the Right implement strigent 5 Year Plans? Would the lack of collectivisation actually help industrialisation due to a larger population, healthier economy etc.

Foreign investment: Even under Stalin foriegn investment in Soviet industry was high, how would this be effected.

'The Party': Without Stalin's machinations how would the CPSU and state by proxy look? Would it be a far more elitist group. Would the Cheka's role be lessened?
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