The Soviet Union goes Fascist

What if in 1927 or 1928, there's a major failed coup against Stalin in which he nearly dies. On top of this, Leon Trotsky and his form of Communism come to power in another European nation soon thereafter. These two blows cause Stalin to become more nationalistic and to remake the Communist Party of the Soviet Union into a fascist party and regime. The USSR and Fascist Italy become allies against the Trotskyist regime which is propogating revolution across the world.

In such a scenario, how would World War Two happen? Would Hitler or the Nazis come to power in Germany? What would happen to the U.S.? Which countries would go Trotskyist and which would go fascist?
 
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I don't see Mussolini and the rest of Europe believing that Joseph Stalin is no longer a Communist, 'no really guys, really I'm not,' with such a long history with Lenin and socialist movements in Russia. I suppose if the Hungarian Socialist Republic had survived it could have adopted Trotskyism as a Marxist way to justify their irredentism and revanchism.

The only way I can see the Soviet Union feasibly becoming Fascist is if the Japanese invaded in 1939 (as they were heavily considering until the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was announced) and set up the Manchurian-based Russian Fascist Organization as a puppet government in the Russian Far East and Siberia under Konstantine Rodzaevsky.
 
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Admittedly I don't know much about the internal politics of the Soviet Union, but isn't it more likely that the Stalinist USSR and Fascist Italy become pragmatic allies, rather than for the USSR to go full Fascist?
 
Perhaps the Japanese continue to occupy the Russian Far East/Siberia after the Russian Civil War and a fascist White Russian state is established under a military junta that participates in a Japanese invasion of the USSR some time in 1939-40 instead of invading China. I'm not sure if the Japanese would successfully defeat the Soviet Union so maybe some kind of peace is signed where the Soviets officially cede the Japanese-held territories of the Far East to Tokyo and the White Russian puppet state which becomes more fascist.
 
I don't see Mussolini and the rest of Europe believing that Joseph Stalin is no longer a Communist, 'no really guys, really I'm not,' with such a long history with Lenin and socialist movements in Russia. I suppose if the Hungarian Socialist Republic had survived it could have adopted Trotskyism as a Marxist way to justify their irredentism and revanchism.

The only way I can see the Soviet Union feasibly becoming Fascist is if the Japanese invaded in 1939 (as they were heavily considering until the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was announced) and set up the Manchurian-based Russian Fascist Organization as a puppet government in the Russian Far East and Siberia under Konstantine Rodzaevsky.

Stalinism and Fascism aren't really that far apart ideologically. There are indeed differences, but with enough to push him, Stalin may have gone more towards fascism. Not only that, Mussolini started out as a socialist and at first he and Lenin respected each other. While it probably wouldn't happen at first, Mussolini and Stalin would likely become allies because of Trotsky.

Admittedly I don't know much about the internal politics of the Soviet Union, but isn't it more likely that the Stalinist USSR and Fascist Italy become pragmatic allies, rather than for the USSR to go full Fascist?

Fascism isn't monolithic so I think Stalin could develop a unique form of it, especially since Stalinism isn't that far from more left-wing types of fascism.

Theres a active discussion on this same subject just started less than two weeks ago.

That is based on a Whites winning the Russian Civil War scenario. This is based on the Soviets winning and in the late twenties Stalin being pushed to fascism by circumstances.
 
Stalin was a Georgian, and this was not exactly a secret. I think its going to be difficult for him to wrap himself in the colors of Russian Nationalism. The totalitarian impulse was there, however. As for this Trotskyist state, Trotsky was a militarist and an internationalist and the two tendencies would almost ensure he faced enemies of staggering danger long before he had consolidated his position.

Stalin would probably see this as simply further reason for retrenchment.
 
Stalin was a Georgian, and this was not exactly a secret. I think its going to be difficult for him to wrap himself in the colors of Russian Nationalism. The totalitarian impulse was there, however. As for this Trotskyist state, Trotsky was a militarist and an internationalist and the two tendencies would almost ensure he faced enemies of staggering danger long before he had consolidated his position.

Stalin would probably see this as simply further reason for retrenchment.
What about wrapping himself in Soviet nationalism?
 
Well, then it wouldn't be fascism, as it would not be linked to a particular national group. The Soviet Union was put together by forcefully aligning the Bolsheviks with other national group's communist parties.

I don't see why Soviet socialist patriotism couldn't be warped into a form of nationalism associated with fascism. Not only that, there is the precedent of Brazilian Integralism which embraced racial and ethnic harmony and unity so I still see no reason that the Soviet Union of the late twenties and early thirties couldn't go fascist.
 
Well, then it wouldn't be fascism, as it would not be linked to a particular national group. The Soviet Union was put together by forcefully aligning the Bolsheviks with other national group's communist parties.
Eh.. Russian.. Soviet ... Really tomato tomoto
 
Stalin was a diehard communist. He believed in the party and its mission with a burning passion; it figuratively ruled every aspect of his life. Almost getting capped by some random gunman isn’t going to push him in the direction of some new weird Italian corporatist mumbo-jumbo, it’s going to make him believe even harder in the gospel of Marxist-Leninism. You can split hairs and argue that Stalinism was some kind of Fascism (and I’d agree), but Stalin would live and die as a self-professed communist.

As for your other point... what country on earth, of such influence as to threaten Stalin, would be liable to a takeover by Leon Trotsky??
 
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