AHC-WI White Army win the civil war but lose power after a few years.

How could you make the white army win the civil war while making them weak enough to lose power to a less reactionary and less antisemitic faction after a few years (between 1924 and 1926)? And which other faction could take over the white army?

Edit: Any map of Russian railway and road during the civil war period would also be appreciated.
 
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First the White leaders have to reach a accommodation with each other, and with the returning business class. The Whites were not a cohesive group but several independent groups, which is one of the reasons they were defeated. The most probable government is a oligarchy of military leaders, residual aristocrats, and merchants/capitolists/landowners with a republic pasted over it. If that holds together for a few years, then politically incompetent military leaders might be out maneuvered and sidelined by the other leaders in the new Duma & Cabinet. Best case is a Ataturk, Cromwell, or Washington type leader emerges who stabilizes the state & sets a precedent for peaceful power transitions. Next best is a fractious Duma where no one gains decisive power & the Oligarchs make sure no one faction, including the army, gains the balance of power.
 
The 1912 map, available on wikipedia:
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Here's in full resolution: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Russian_Empire_Map.jpg .
 
Depends on the time of the victory.
In the 1918 push (as in my TL), the SRs were dominant with the Ufa Directory until November.
After November 1918, when the Ufa directory was overthrown by Kolchak and the Entente powers begin to intervene effectively in the civil war, the right wing factions gained traction, especially Denikin in South Russia where his army was made mostly of conservatives, monarchists and reactionaries of all kinds.
 
Given in the OTL the Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 1905 and Japanese intervention from the Manchuria and the Sea of Japan during the Civil War, could White Army victory in this ATL give Japan the territory of the northern part of the Sakhalin Island the the northern mountainous area of the Amur estuary? At the maximum extent, Japan could only reach the joining of Shilka and Argun rivers to the Amur. However, effectively in this ATL, Japan could control more or less extent upstream along the Amur to Blagoveshchensk. Not much rural country could Japan control due to logistics, cities and towns along the Amur such as Blagoveshchensk could. Then Japan could cream off landmass south of the Stanovoy Range and the Kuril islands at where navy could control voyage into and out of the Sea of Okhtosk.

In the OTL, Russian Far East is still less undeveloped then cities in Manchuria under the PRC and Hokkaido under Japan. In the ATL, oil offshore east of the Sakhalin, tin and coal in the Russian Far East could be exploited earlier than in the OTL. German coal to oil technology could help turn these additional coal asset to oil. This added benefits to Japan were not likely to drastically change fortune of Japan during ww2 but they could still be benefits.
 
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First the White leaders have to reach a accommodation with each other, and with the returning business class. The Whites were not a cohesive group but several independent groups, which is one of the reasons they were defeated. The most probable government is a oligarchy of military leaders, residual aristocrats, and merchants/capitolists/landowners with a republic pasted over it. If that holds together for a few years, then politically incompetent military leaders might be out maneuvered and sidelined by the other leaders in the new Duma & Cabinet. Best case is a Ataturk, Cromwell, or Washington type leader emerges who stabilizes the state & sets a precedent for peaceful power transitions. Next best is a fractious Duma where no one gains decisive power & the Oligarchs make sure no one faction, including the army, gains the balance of power.

Or a situation like 1920s China, with a somewhat shadowy central government and some powerful warlords.
 
Or a situation like 1920s China, with a somewhat shadowy central government and some powerful warlords.

Or a strong united central government with warlords and separatist states. The strong united central government received baking from various factions who want to see Russia reunited. And when Russia is more or less reunited, the government lose is baking and the state fall into political chaos and an other faction take power after a few weeks or monts month.
 
Or a strong united central government with warlords and separatist states. The strong united central government received baking from various factions who want to see Russia reunited. And when Russia is more or less reunited, the government lose is baking and the state fall into political chaos and an other faction take power after a few weeks or monts month.

That's not a strong central government: quite the contrary it actually reads like an African-style patron-client relationship turned on its head. The government in Moscow would be dependent on self-funded local strong-men to see its writ carried out, who can make demands for greater local autonomy or control over money that under ordinary circumstances would go to the centeral treasury (Either by getting directly subsidized, being allowed to collect taxes/requisition supplies in their zone of control that would otherwise go to the central government, or having major levels of corruption tolerated). While this would lead to a more unified/larger Russian on the surface and the supression of ideologies unacceptable to the centeral government, that comes at the cost of their ability to actually govern.
 
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