I'm reading Adam Tooze's Deluge, which is a fascinating look at Europe in the interwar period, as well as the least years of WW1, and he has an interesting discussion of the Russian Civil War.
In a June memo prepared for Ludendorff's staff, "The Aims of German Policy," Ludendroff proposed intervening in the Russian Civil War to create a conservative Russian State who would "not only pose[] no danger to Germany's political future," but would be "politically, militarily, and economically dependent on Germany."
Despite the crisis facing Germany in the summer and fall of 1918, Ludendorff continued to fantasize about intervening in Russia. In August, the Russian government asked the Germans to intervene to stabilize the Murmansk front, where the British were creating an anti-Soviet base. Ludendorff leapt to intervene, but he proposed occupying Petrogad and Ronstadt, which would require a mere six divisions. This would form the basis for a new, revitalized conservative regime under German "supervision."
I think to get a Central Powers intervention, you need to drag the war out into 1919, or have the Allied Powers lose. But it's hard to see how this intervention would be any more successful than the Entente's...
In a June memo prepared for Ludendorff's staff, "The Aims of German Policy," Ludendroff proposed intervening in the Russian Civil War to create a conservative Russian State who would "not only pose[] no danger to Germany's political future," but would be "politically, militarily, and economically dependent on Germany."
Despite the crisis facing Germany in the summer and fall of 1918, Ludendorff continued to fantasize about intervening in Russia. In August, the Russian government asked the Germans to intervene to stabilize the Murmansk front, where the British were creating an anti-Soviet base. Ludendorff leapt to intervene, but he proposed occupying Petrogad and Ronstadt, which would require a mere six divisions. This would form the basis for a new, revitalized conservative regime under German "supervision."
I think to get a Central Powers intervention, you need to drag the war out into 1919, or have the Allied Powers lose. But it's hard to see how this intervention would be any more successful than the Entente's...