Why Sverdlov over Trotsky?The Bolsheviks quickly reorganize and keep going on with the Red Terror and fighting the Civil War. By that point there were enough Bolshevik leaders that they could keep things going without Lenin. In all probability a committee of Trotsky, Stalin, Yakov Sverdlov, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev takes control for most of the civil war. Then they start attacking each other and either Stalin or Sverdlov wins.
Why Sverdlov over Trotsky?
Would the Romanovs still die or do they get sent to exile?
Would the Romanovs still die or do they get sent to exile?