If Trotsky became the first Chairman of Sovnarkom

[Die Neue Zeit]

I read back in high school that, just after the events of October, Lenin even went so far as to propose that Trotsky become the Chairman of the newly formed Council of People's Commissars (http://library.thinkquest.org/17120/data/bios/trotsky/background/backg2.html). Historically, Trotsky refused, citing his Jewish background and the potential for Lenin to incessantly criticize him.

Now, what if he headed Sovnarkom? How much differently would he have handled the civil war? What would his political relationship with Lenin have been like? Which People's Commissariat would Lenin have headed?

[dez]

no ifs in history.
There just is and was.

[stevensen]

trotsky was a renegade. he was not even a bloshevik till 1917. i do not think trotsky would have been able to do the job that general secretary stalin did.

[Tower of Bebel]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15, 2007 08:58 am
trotsky was a renegade. he was not even a bloshevik till 1917. i do not think trotsky would have been able to do the job that general secretary stalin did.
I do not agree with you. The word renegade does say more bout yourself than about Trotsky.

[dez]

ren·e·gade
1 : a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another
2 : an individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior


trotsky organized red army.
He was more commited to communism than many, and military usually have a conventional pattern of behavior...
=D

[stevensen]

read both ur comments. nothing worthwhile other than the dictionary meaning of the word renegade. note: none of u comment on the essentail thing: trotsky was not a bolshevik till 1917. says much about his ability to anlyse a political situation. could not quite understand what has his red army chief tag got to do with his later actions? r u implying that since he was the red army chief he was above suspicion? remmeber a successful army chief is only so because countless red army soldiers gave their life not for trotsky but for the revolution of the bolsheviks of which trotsky was not even aa member till 1917.

[wes]

Trotsky made it clear that it dosent matter if he is people commissar or general secretary. What matters is rather or not the workers are in control of the soviet union.