How long can the Russian Civil War last?

BigBlueBox

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Pretty much what the title says. What is the longest, most chaotic Russian civil war scenario possible (that still has an Entente victory in the Great War?)?
I'm thinking one of the following scenarios:
  1. OTL up until 1919-1920, when a much harsher Peace of Riga severely weakens the Bolsheviks. The Kronstadt and Tambov rebellions are more successful (and the former leads to all of Petrograd revolting) and whatever Left-SRs are left turn on the Bolsheviks. This eventually leads to several more years of chaotic, multi-sided struggle between the Bolsheviks, Left-SRs, White remnants, and various ethnic separatists.
  2. OTL until the Whites are vanquished, at which point the Bolsheviks have a split and turn on each other. Various ethnic groups try to gain independence in the chaos.
  3. The Whites destroy the Bolsheviks after an even longer and more brutal war, then have to crush the Greens and try to reconquer Russia's lost territory with an already exhausted army. Various mutinies or coups among the Whites occur.
  4. The Whites win, then turn on each other over the various issues that divided them such as monarchy vs republic.
 
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I'm thinking that numbers 3 and 4 seem to be the most plausible, considering how fractious the White forces were during the OTL Russian Civil War. Number 2 is quite plausible something happens where the Left SR uprising is successful and something with the Mensheviks could happen if the Bolsheviks remain disorganized enough at the beginning of the RCW.
 
Pretty much what the title says. What is the longest, most chaotic Russian civil war scenario possible (that still has an Entente victory in the Great War?)?
I'm thinking one of the following scenarios:
  1. OTL up until 1919-1920, when a much harsher Peace of Riga severely weakens the Bolsheviks. The Kronstadt and Tambov rebellions are more successful (and the former leads to all of Petrograd revolting) and whatever Left-SRs are left turn on the Bolsheviks. This eventually leads to several more years of chaotic, multi-sided struggle between the Bolsheviks, Left-SRs, White remnants, and various ethnic separatists.
  2. OTL until the Whites are vanquished, at which point the Bolsheviks have a split and turn on each other. Various ethnic groups try to gain independence in the chaos.
  3. The Whites destroy the Bolsheviks after an even longer and more brutal war, then have to crush the Greens and try to reconquer Russia's lost territory with an already exhausted army. Various mutinies or coups among the Whites occur.
  4. The Whites win, then turn on each other over the various issues that divided them such monarchy vs republic.

I'd vote for 3 as the most likely scenario. So long as the Reds and other insurgents are throughly stomped down, I imagine the rest of the world would insist that any internally dividing issues in scenario 4 either be handled by a Constituent Assembly or mediated by an international conference, if for no other reason than not wanting to see the Communists flare up again and a black whole of anarchy growing up to engulf centeral Eurasia with the risk of spilling out. If, on the other hand, you end up with a constant state of low level civil war combined with a South Vietnamese style "circular firing squad" of generals in charge, you're likely to see the international community shrugging and accepting the status quo so long as whoever is currently in charge keeps the violence contained. Such a war could drag out well into the early 40s
 
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