Lenin dies 1934

I understand that this "what-if" is quite broad but lets try it anyway.

What if Lenin died a decade later, in 1934?

 

We'd be saying it was a bad career move.

 

For Stalin´s career you mean??

 

A bit to broad as anything could had happen, out of interest would Lenin licked Russia in to shape?

 

Lenin wolud have lost the power anyway, if lenin had not died for disease he would heve been eliminated.
Stalin was too clever, too cynic, much more practical than lenin. stalin would have prevailed however.

 

Nah, Lenin was a ruthless bastard - politicians are. I'm not sure much would have been different, the NEP was a dead end so what else could have been done?

 

The Red Rabbi would have shot that bourgeois intellectual enemy of the people and help install a proper Secretary General with proof given as a true Friend of the People, namely Comrade J.V.Stalin

 

Larger death benefits.

 

Might have the purges by Stalin in the 30's been prevented, or at the very least delayed?

 

Delayed yes, prevented no, it is just they occur ten years later, but i have to agree, i think Uncle Joe would have had him assasinated sooner or later Lenin was an impediment to Stalin's ambitions.

 

Now compound that with the fact of S. finding out about Lenin's testament.

 

Lenin was too nice when he used only words. He should have gotten rid of Stalin himself if he wanted it done.

Letter to the Congress

Stalin is too rude and this defect, although quite tolerable in our midst and in dealing among us Communists, becomes intolerable in a Secretary-General. That is why I suggest that the comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from that post and appointing another man in his stead who in all other respects differs from Comrade Stalin in having only one advantage, namely, that of being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more considerate to the comrades, less capricious, etc. This circumstance may appear to be a negligible detail. But I think that from the standpoint of safeguards against a split and from the standpoint of what I wrote above about the relationship between Stalin and Trotsky it is not a [minor] detail, but it is a detail which can assume decisive importance.

Lenin

Taken down by L.F.
January 4, 1923

 

"I am the Walrus".

 

I know of that letter. Stalin loved it

 

That rug really tied the room together.

 

Faith among thieves...