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So here's an issue for our board Russian Revolution experts -- a fair number of us (myself included) know about the basic factions that were vying for power in 1917 between the February and October Revolutions, but our knowledge of their political ideologies is fairly vague and mostly seem to hinge on two issues: (1) "should the Soviets take full power?" and (2) the war. This is a bit limiting when it comes to AH speculation, trying to imagine results of one faction doing better or worse than OTL, and how that would affect the new Russian government.

The basic factions I'm talking about:
  • Bolsheviks
  • Right (or "defensist") SRs
  • Left SRs
  • Mensheviks (left and right)
  • Kadets
My question for our experts -- aside from their stances on the war (and on the question of the PG itself), how did these factions differ in their proposed domestic policies and governing philosophies? For example, were their serious differences in their approach to land reform, industry nationalization, or general economic policy? And putting plausibility of said regimes aside entirely, how would a government dominated by Right SRs differ from the Bolshevik regime's policies of OTL? Same for a coalition government of Kadets and Right Mensheviks. And same for other potential regimes we might think of.
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