Fourth Internationale

The Fourth Internationale takes a look at what would have happend if Leon Trotsky was the one who started the communist revolution in russia in 1915

Introduction
Introduction

The POD in this Timeline is in 1897 when instead of exiled Vladimir Lenin is executed in Petrograd. In 1904 Leon Trotsky joins the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party and after 7 party members are shot dead durin a protest in Moscow Leon Trotsky starts the Russian Revolution which ends in 1918 with the Tsardom of Russia becoming the Russian Peoples Republic.

Other things which diverge from our timeline include:

A rebellion in Austrian Dalmatia in 1917 druing ww1 causes the early downfall of austro-hungary and the creation of the Kingdom of Croatia.

The Sykes–Picot Agreement never happens and most of the Arabian Peninsula is united under Hejazi Arabia.

Important Post-ww1 Events
in 1918 Russia invades the newly created state of poland and annexes it in 1920.

After the Great War germany goes through a much more important November Revolution in 1918-1922. After the Freikorps won against the communist they overthrew the weimar republic, putting  Oskar von Watter in power turning germany into a junta.

Hungary and Romania continue to despiute the owner of transylvania until in 1922 when  the league of nations interfere and make transylvania into an independent state with Anton Istvan as its first President.

Communist France
In 1930 the french communist party creates a coup with support from russia and has Maurice Thorez put in power. France becomes the western most arm of the Fourth Internationale (FI) and releases its colonies in africa and asia turning  them instead into sattelite states to france. Vietnam however fights a civil war making them into a democracy while Cambodia and Laos are invaded and annexed by Siam in the Siamese Recalmation war in 1935. France  later helps Quebec become independent in 1940. Quebec, while still part of  FI becomes isolationist under rule of Kenneth Morin.