How could the Bolshevik Revolution fail?

In OTL the socialist Reds held a successful revolution against the Whites in 1917 Russia. Assuming no changes in the TL up until WW1, what set of circumstances would have had to happen in order for that revolution to have failed and kept the Whites in power? What would Russia have looked like after that, and how would that affect that country, Europe, and the world for the next 30 years?
 
Lenin doesn't return to Russia. Either the germans don't help him, or he dies trying to return. That, afaik, would cripple the early organizing eforts of the movement.
 
In OTL the socialist Reds held a successful revolution against the Whites in 1917 Russia. Assuming no changes in the TL up until WW1, what set of circumstances would have had to happen in order for that revolution to have failed and kept the Whites in power? What would Russia have looked like after that, and how would that affect that country, Europe, and the world for the next 30 years?

The Bolsheviks didn't overthrow "the Whites" in 1917, they overthrew Kerensky's government, which was a mixture of liberals and moderate socialists.

The best way to have the Bolshevik coup fail is for it not to take place--there were plenty of Bolsheviks who favored a peaceful transfer of power to a coalition of all the socialist parties represented in the soviets. But that of course would not be a "White" government.
 
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In OTL the socialist Reds held a successful revolution against the Whites in 1917 Russia. Assuming no changes in the TL up until WW1, what set of circumstances would have had to happen in order for that revolution to have failed and kept the Whites in power? What would Russia have looked like after that, and how would that affect that country, Europe, and the world for the next 30 years?
More foreign aid to the Whites couldn't hurt.
 
It's not clear to me whether what is being asked is "how do you have the Bolshevik coup fail in 1917?" or "how do you have the Whites win the Civil War, presumably in 1919?"
 
If the Provisional Government decided to end WWI (like the Bolsheviks would later do) before the July Days it could possibly avert the increasing radicalization of workers. soldiers, and peasants, the declining economy, and the hatred of the Provisional Government for their failure to end the war. All of those factors seriously aided the Bolsheviks both in seizing and holding power.
 
If the Provisional Government decided to end WWI (like the Bolsheviks would later do) before the July Days it could possibly avert the increasing radicalization of workers. soldiers, and peasants, the declining economy, and the hatred of the Provisional Government for their failure to end the war. All of those factors seriously aided the Bolsheviks both in seizing and holding power.

The PG should have avoided the July Offensive, but leaving the war at that point was almost out of the question. Everyone assumed that it would lead to a German victory (the Yanks weren't coming for many months) and a victorious Germany, it was thought, would proceed to dismember Russia and destroy everything won by the Revolution. If Kerensky had attempted a Brest-Litovsk in the summer of 1917, the Bolsheviks would be the first to cry "Treason!" and "sell-out to German imperialism!" (Of course they were in favor of peace, they would explain, but one with the German workers and soldiers, not with the Kaiser; and if reminded that the German workers and soldiers were not in power, the Bolsheviks would reply that if Russia got rid of its bourgeois-government-with-moderate-socialist-window-dressing, a German revolution was sure to follow soon...)
 
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