WI Lenin was assassinated in 1918?

On August 30 1918, Lenin was speaking at a Moscow factory called "Hammer and Sickle". As Lenin left the building and before he entered his car, Kaplan called out to him. When Lenin turned towards her, she fired three shots. One passed through Lenin's coat, the other two hit him in the left shoulder and jaw. Lenin was taken back to his living quarters at the Kremlin. He feared there might be other plotters planning to kill him and refused to leave the security of the Kremlin to seek medical attention. Doctors were brought in to treat him but were unable to remove the bullets outside of a hospital. Despite the severity of his injuries, Lenin survived. However, Lenin's health never fully recovered from the attack and it is believed the shooting contributed to the strokes that incapacitated and later killed him.
WI Lenin died that day? Stalin was only a minor character in 1918 in Georgia with no chances of consolidating power... How is Lenin's death affects Russia? Could the Whites have prevailed as the Reds are in shock for the death of their leader?
 

King Thomas

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I would guess Trotsky would take over and launch an even bigger Red Terror then in OTL. In the best case you get a USSR that is more open to the West in the long term, and a Communist party that at the least, does not set it's own secret police upon itself. In the worst case you get a slightly earlier WW2 as Trotsky orders the USSR to attack the West.
 
I would guess Trotsky would take over and launch an even bigger Red Terror then in OTL. In the best case you get a USSR that is more open to the West in the long term, and a Communist party that at the least, does not set it's own secret police upon itself. In the worst case you get a slightly earlier WW2 as Trotsky orders the USSR to attack the West.

Well Trotsky would have to face Whites first... They were still around by 1918 and they might have tried to exploit the shock of Lenin's untimely death to kick Bolshevics out...
 
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