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What if Admiral Kolchak, soon after he became the chief military commander of the anti-Soviet Socialist Revolutionary government headquartered at Omsk, didn't overthrow the SRs and make himself dictator?

From a quick scan of online sources, he waffled on land reform, alienated non-Russians, and ran a corrupt and dictatorial regime. He ended up being routed and killed.

So what if he hadn't pulled his putsch and remained subordinate to the SRs?

Methinks there's going to be friction, at the very least. I think Kerensky sent him to America, ostensibly to study the U.S. Navy, because he was afraid Kolchak would have become dictator.

However, I remember an anti-White claim that the SRs were the only ones who could have defeated the Bolsheviks in the battle for hearts and minds (they did win 57% of the vote in the Constituent Assembly, as opposed to the Bolsheviks' 25%), but the Whites repressed them.

If Kolchak reasons that it's better to deal with the Bolsheviks first and the SRs later, this partnership might last for at least longer than OTL.
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