I'm currently reading Spies and Commissars and it touches briefly on Leon Trotsky's exile to New York and his return to Russia after the Tsar is overthrown. This lead me to wonder what would have happened if the ship he and his family were traveling on were never to reach it's destination. Maybe it sinks due to bad weather or is attacked and sunk by a U-boat? Perhaps Trotsky comes down with Spanish flu and dies on the voyage. How would this effect the Bolshevik movement and their seizing of power in Petrograd and later effects on the Russian Revolution? Do things stay relatively the same or does the movement change without Trotsky?
Alternatively what if the British didn't release Trotsky from Amherst Internment Camp in Nova Scotia until the War came to an end in 1918? How would Trotsky's delayed arrival in Russia by about a year effect things?
Alternatively what if the British didn't release Trotsky from Amherst Internment Camp in Nova Scotia until the War came to an end in 1918? How would Trotsky's delayed arrival in Russia by about a year effect things?