The Central European Soviet Union

So my understanding is that even the Communists considered the Russian Empire an unlikely place to start a revolution. And I was considering two possible PODs.

The first is that Kerensky quickly comes to terms with Germany and uses the army to put down the Bolsheviks. I don't know if the Russian Republic had that capability or not. Assuming that they did, my next thought was that the retreating revolutionaries decide to go West again, to take advantage of the second weakest Power: the Hapsburg monarchy.

Many of the Revolutionaries lived in Vienna and probably knew where all the vulnerable spots were. Can they overthrow the government? Spread to weakened Serbia and Romania? And while Germany would no doubt take issue, what are they actually willing to give up on the Western Front to engage Communism in Austria-Hungary?
 
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