DBWI: What if the Bolsheviks had won the Russian civil war?

This would be a simple matter of not having the Germans back out on their promise to back the reds. They had originally pledged the funds to help get Russia out of the war, but could not assemble the equipment or money to give to the rebels as the war had taken too much of a toll on their economy.
 
Honestly, if the Bolsheviks won, they would need people like Bronstein on their side. However, if they won, the country would be very weak. Lenin's health was degrading and probably would have died soon after a victory. After that, either Jugashvili would take power or the country would collapse due to a power struggle. However, lets say a functioning state forms. It would be very weak after winning the Civil War and would be blockaded by the other European powers, leading to a poor economy. I'd doubt they would have the power to have a chance at invading Poland, let alone all those breakaway states that formed after the revolution. Russia has a history of being very authoritarian, so I doubt such a state would become a liberal democracy. Instead, it would become a totalitarian dictatorship under Jugashvili. Eventually, some revolt would happen and the powers that be invade to restore democracy. Russia would continue to be a backwater with low development to this day
 
Yeah let's just overlook the brutal Russification programs against Native Siberians that were official state policy up until the mid 70s, the heavy systemic discrimination and police brutality against non-Russians, and the Turkic Lives Matter movement. But you know, Russia isn't racist anymore guys.

True, but that was all the Imperialists' fault, though, and Milyukov's government did implement the anti-discrimination laws in 1991. It is sadly true that a large portion of Russia's old elite refuses to move on, and some areas are still suffering from racism-tinged corruption(much like the South of the U.S. prior to the mid '60s.), but things have gotten better.

Well, Jugashvili was a pretty cunning guy - he held out in Caucasus for years - so who knows?

And besides, Milyukov being racist were just rumors spread by Polish and Circassian nationalists. Yes, Russia may not have been too friendly towards Jews and Caucasians, but we have moved past that.

The rumors were not only false, but deliberately malicious. Milyukov's wife was Armenian, folks. And one of his sons married a Jewish woman.

This would be a simple matter of not having the Germans back out on their promise to back the reds. They had originally pledged the funds to help get Russia out of the war, but could not assemble the equipment or money to give to the rebels as the war had taken too much of a toll on their economy.

Erm, what? Dunno where you heard this, outside of maybe Alisdair McWharrie(the Australian academic who originally came up with this claim-went a bit nutty in the Sixties), but nobody in Germany ever promised to back the Reds officially. It was *one* individual official, and one, whom it turned out, would gain actual pro-Communist sympathies later in his life(the Munich Massacre in 1924 was the final straw, IIRC) and was forced to leave for the United States because of it, where he died in the '50s.
 
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