Following the abdication of the Czar in early march of 1917, the Russian nation was in a pretty sorry state. The strains of The Great War had lead to massive food shortagages, protests, economic hardships, overworking of the nation's infastructure, and a general splintering of society. In such chaotic circumstances, it wasen't a surprise when the fragile coalition of centerists and moderate Leftists who seized control of the tattered remains of the Russian government collapsed in on itself after only a few more months of war strain; the Bolsheviks rising from a tiny fringe group to gaining enough popular support to become the main threat to the state by being one of the few factions who offered the divided population the one thing they could all agree on: withdrawal from the war.
Of course, in our timeline Alexander Kerensky sought to keep Russia in the war despite domestic pressures in order to maintain the confidence and recognition of the nations of the Entente; who's financial and material support had been key to keeping the Russian military machine running for years. However, Russia WAS meant to be a Republic, and the population was obviously sick of war, so what if the Provisional Government, upon taking power, sought to simutaniously prop up its domestic position (and undercut the worker's council's attempts to impose "duel power") and free up the army so they could use its bayonets to enforce their new laws/suppress radical dissent by seeking peace with the Centeral Powers.
Given the fact that the Russian army would still be in the field and holding territory , while the Germans would have yet to seize the huge swaths of land they'd eventually drive through virtually unopposed following the Bolshevik takeover and their vain assumption that they could unilaterally declare peace, what terms do you think an eventual peace treaty between the CP and Republican Russia look like? How would the Entente respond to this betrayal? (For example, do they try to intervene to impose a government that will restart the war? Koronov is still in charge of the army, after all: a "Blue Putche" to install a right-wing military dictatorship could be on the minds of some in the French or British government). Would the domestic situation in Russia stabilize?
I'd like to have a discussion on just what such a peace would mean, both for Russia and the larger war.