Fate of Bolshevik Leaders with no October Revolution?

Inspired by Hnau's sadly defunct No-Lenin timeline, I was wondering what people thought about the fate of the USSR's leadership without a USSR.

If we follow Hnau's logic of no Lenin = SRs dominate the 1917 Revolution, leading to a basically democratic Russian republic, what do the sidelined SDLP do?

Will they continue to agitate for revolution, join in elective politics, go off to other careers? Not only the 'Old Bolsheviks' but later generations, will the likes of Beria, Khrushchev, Zhukov etc. still become prominent? Really no Soviet Union frees a lot of people who probably aren't enamored with some fringe far-left party.

TBH I just like the idea of Bukharin drawing satirical cartoons in newspapers and Stalin touting a tommy gun on the highways of Russia as a gangster. :rolleyes:

Anyone got a more educating hypothesis?
 
I wouldn't say that SDLP would be sidelined. Even if SRs held the countryside, they still have the cities and workers as their strong base of support. And since the party was willing to cooperate with other political forces before Lenin came along and started to bullheadedly steer things towards disaster, I'd say that plenty of OTL Bolsheviks are still around. They are either rallying around the more radical line favoured by, say, Trotsky and others, or are content on being the 2. largest party in Duma and developing socialism in Russian Republic through the ballot box.
 

MSZ

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Many of them were in prison during the war, only released by the provisional government. Without a revolution, they are likely to remain incarcerated for longer, maybe even sent to Siberia, after which they would be released thanks to some amnesty or such.

The die-hard bolsheviks would remain that, writing works, having speeches, participating in elections. Those who OTL tagged along with the revolution may simply pursue whatever careers they had before the war.
 
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