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Question: Which, if any, of these states might have survived?

I have discussed the Gilan Soviet Republic here before: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/kuchak-khan-and-the-gilan-soviet-republic.339145/

I have also indicated why I don't think the Basmachis ever had much of a chance of success: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...ucceeds-in-central-asia.361483/#post-11079251

Of course, referring to the Free Territory as a "state" would have been considered a counterrevolutionary slander by Makhno...

As for the Far Eastern Republic, it was basically a fake. The Bolsheviks allowed the formation of a nominally non-Communist state (with moderate-socialist participation) as a buffer state to get the Japanese out. Once the Red Army entered Vladivostok, in the wake of the evacuating Japanese, the FER was abolished and incorporated into the RSFSR.

And there were some states which proved ephemeral enough, but are not on this map: Litbel, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litbel

In general, these states just don't seem populous or powerful enough to hold out against whoever won the Russian Civil War, Red or White. Yet few people would have thought that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia could maintain their independence for two decades...
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