Bolsheviks at Versailles?

If Germany had been defeated in the West before they had a chance to impose Brest-Litovsk or similar terms on Russia, AND if the Bolsheviks still took power, what would happen? I know it's unlikely for this to happen, but I think with a few adjusted variables (earlier American entry?) it can happen. So what would the aims of a Russian revolutionary government be at the peace talks, and how would they get along with the other victorious allies?
 
Unless Entente recognizes them as legitimate government, not gonna happen. Image of Bolsheviks being in the pay of Germans does nothing to help their cause with the Allies and the fact that their revolution just caused chaos that crippled the war effort of their principal Ally torpedoes their chances of recognition totally. Even IF somehow Entente got around to invite them to peace negotiations, I don't see Lenin accepting it.
 

Cook

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At the time of the Paris Peace conference the Russian Civil War was still in full swing and there were expeditionary forces from four (Britain, United States, Japan and France) of the Big Five powers in Russia fighting against the Bolsheviks. For a Bolshevik delegation to have been accepted at the conference you need to either avoid the Civil War (or Counter-revolution) entirely or have it completed earlier and preferably without foreign involvement.

In addition you need the Bolshevik’s to be willing to honour their war debts, especially the enormous number of war bonds that the Tsarist and provisional governments had sold; bonds that became worthless when the Bolsheviks took over in Russia and which had represented a very large investment by not the governments of Britain and France, but also an enormous number of private French citizens as well. The Bolsheviks would have been ideologically opposed to paying debts to (as they say it) international capitalism, even if they had the finances to do so without bankrupting the country.
 
To do so would basically imply recognition of the Bolsheviks as a legitimate governing authority, and one that multiple members of the Entente were intervening in a war against.

So not really, no.
 

MSZ

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You's need the western powers to recognize the Soviet government in Russia (unlikely, since none of them did that until long after the Russian Civil War) and for Russia to wish to join the negotiations (again unlikely, as Lenin was opposed to particpation, calling it a bourgeois congress which was meant to be destroyed by the revolution). So you would need a very different turn of events than OTL.

For example - kill Lenin and the rest of the OTL top ranking bolsheviks. IIRC the tzarist authorities, and later the Provisional Government had a lot of them under arrest for quite a long time. The Bolshevik party thus exists and enters the elections called by the provisional government. There is a great mess-up in the elections, fraud etc. - end result is the Bolsheviks win, but don't get a majority, ending up with them forming a coalition government with the Mensheviks and SR. Kerensky goes out of office, Russia becomes bolshevik through evolution rather than revolution, the civil war is avoided and they are invited to Versailles as one of the victorious powers - the fact that they signed Brest-Litovsk being forgiven.
 
The Bolsheviks at that time were committed to the overthrow of all regimes. They had exposed the secret treaties (eg Sykes-Picot) with their former Allies and they rejected the entire international system.

They wouldn't want to go to Versailles and would denounce the whole thing as an imperialistic carve up.

Later when it became obvious that communism wouldn't be sweeping Europe they softened their attitude and began to join the treaty system.

1918 /19 is too soon for the Bolsheviks to want to create a stable post war order. They wanted chaos in order to create a revolutionary situation.
 
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