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(Firstly, we currently have an excellent, top-notch TL on this forum from @Zulfurium on Lenin and Stalin being killed during the July Days, I would encourage everyone to check it out).

I wanted to explore something different. WI when the Provisional Government’s troops come to arrest Trotsky in the aftermath of the July Days, a scuffle breaks out and they shoot him dead? Assume the fates of the other Bolsheviks (Lenin, Zinoviev, Stalin, etc) during the July Days remain as IOTL (i.e. they all live and either escape, are arrested or continue operating).

So Kerensky and the Provisional Government have killed one the leading Soviet leaders and the Bolsheviks have lost that same man, with Kornilov breathing down their necks. What happens now?
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