I think the main difference is that Lenin might have calmed the factional feuding down a bit. The way the Stalin-Trotsky split played out had a lot to do with Lenin being dead. But yeah, Lenin would have pursued a lot of the same policies Stalin did. For that matter, Trotsky would have pursued a lot of the same policies. They all were constrained by the same dire historical circumstances.
Lenin would have pursued a lot of the same policies Stalin did
Collectivisation and all the fumbling along the way was probably something that would happen under any communist leader. On the other hand many consider the Great Purge to be a sort of an unforced error on the part of Stalin...
I think the main difference is that Lenin might have calmed the factional feuding down a bit. The way the Stalin-Trotsky split played out had a lot to do with Lenin being dead. But yeah, Lenin would have pursued a lot of the same policies Stalin did. For that matter, Trotsky would have pursued a lot of the same policies. They all were constrained by the same dire historical circumstances.
Collectivisation and all the fumbling along the way was probably something that would happen under any communist leader. On the other hand many consider the Great Purge to be a sort of an unforced error on the part of Stalin...
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