WI: Joseph Stalin was beaten to death by his father, during his first years?

What if Iosif Vissarionovitsj Dzjoegasjvili, alias Joseph Stalin, had been so abbused by his father, that he would have died in childood, not becomming the worlds most cruel tiran ever in modern history?

What would have become of the USSR, during the Revolution? Who would succeed Lenin, after his death? What would worldhistory have looked like? Would there have been a simmilar PAtriotic Spirit, without Stalin, during WW2?
 
Well, there's always a good chance that butterflies kill the Russian Revolution. But if we don't let that spoil everything and Lenin still comes to power, Lenin's succession will probably resemble Stalin's IOTL even more so than it did initially.

Trotsky was highly unpopular with the rest of the possible successors, but without Stalin the benign placeholder compromise candidate. (Which is how he was viewed by the rest of the leadership.) There might not be someone for Trotsky's opponents to unite behind. Though perhaps under those circumstances some sort of arrangement to block Trotsky's elevation would be worked out.

I'm fond of the idea of a Bukharinite USSR but I'm not sure how plausible that is.
 
I imagine Trotsky would be blocked, there's every chance a more truly oligarchic system will come into effect
 
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