Scenarios about 'permanent revolution'
The theory developed by Leon Trotsky arguing that socialist revolution must continuously advance and spread internationally rather than focusing on "socialism in one country." Permanent revolution posits that working classes in less developed countries could establish dictatorships of the proletariat before completing bourgeois democratic transformations. In alternate history scenarios, this concept often shapes divergent paths for communist movements, Soviet foreign policy, and global revolutionary dynamics.
What If Trotsky Succeeded Lenin?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Leon Trotsky, not Joseph Stalin, emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death, potentially transforming the trajectory of communism and the 20th century global order.