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I was browsing through the pages of this forum, and in one of them I noticed some small discussion about the unexplored AH possibility that Russia could have recovered from the Soviet coup attempt and taken part in the peace treaty of Versailles.

So, I have a few questions regarding this possibility:

1. Is it completely ASB?

2. If it is possible, then at what point would the Whites regain power?

3. If the above is more unlikely, then what could have prevented the revolution? Lenin gets killed is one thing, anything else?

4. What impact would a recovering Russia bring to the peace negotiations? I would think that the creation of Poland, as USA and other Allies wanted, will be impossible. What else?

5. My uses for this idea include a strong Russia at the peace table, but it later (early 1920s?) collapses due to a second revolution attempt (and Poland eventually gets free, but very small). How likely is this?
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