What does a (victorious) White Russian army look like by 1939?

[Carl Schwamberger]

Didn't the Soviets de-industrialize in the 20s and 30s compared to the previous trajectory of the Russian Empire?

No, that comes from the disruption of the Great War & Civil War 1914-1920+, changes in the pattern or course of industrialization, and a general slackening globally through the 1930s. Resuming the growth of the industrial sectors in the 1920s was in part slowed by the problems in reorganizing the agricultural sector. Its not just food shortages, but less biomass available for industrial use. Wood, fibre, oils, chemicals, ect... The emphasis on heavy industry growth in the 1930s distort comparisons with pre 1915 where a larger portion was in light industry.

Its not quite a apples to oranges comparison, but maybe comparing juice oranges for industrial food processing to more generic eating oranges in the grocery.

 

[Fatt Shea]

As others said the Southern army (one that had a chance of taking Moscow and so will be most important) did well due to rapid advance Northwards. So there will likely be emphasis on mobility. Also white army had high amount of former officers from previous Russian army compared to the reds, so this will have some effect. Another thing is that whites were less united, with many warlords so there is likely to be some more regional variation within army (this will change depending on fate of warlord types like Semynov or Krasnov are treated after victory.) Another factor is that the whites had large support from cossacks, so this will impact their army , maybe they use cavalry for longer or there can be something done with their mobilisation system, I am not sure exactly but it will have some effect..

 

[kham_coc]

On the other side, it's much more likely they would act together with Britain and France

I'm like categorically certain that a white Russia under no circumstances would sign up to be Germanys punching bag on behalf of France and the UK again.
This is especially the case considering that it would be just as revisionist as Germany, and with the death of pan slavism and the AH, so what's their conflict?
On the other hand, Poland and the Baltics are conflicts it has with France and the UK.
In fact, it has a joint interest, with no conflicts of interest in the entire Eastern question, and if Germany overrun France, well why should they care?

 

[Cockroach]

The cynic in me says this is hard to answer as the Whites beating the Bolsheviks is probably just the starting bell on Russian Civil War Round 2... After all, the Whites were an incoherent mishmash combining everything from randomly psychopathic warlords; would-be-dictators; monarchists; conservative Republicans; liberal Republicans and various flavours of non-Bolshevik socialist.

And who knows which factions come out ontop then...

 

[Kome]

Any chance of Okhrana or military police (a la Kempeitai) equivalents, though?

The memoirs of Generals Denikin and Wrangel provide insight to their understanding of the revolution. Both especially criticized that the breakdown in morale and discipline as leaving the Russian Army susceptible to Soviet influence.

Denikin in particularly noted that the average Russian soldier of the time was brave and tenacious in character, but not actually all that patriotic. In his opinion the Russian army had always been motivated by faith in 'God, the Tsar, and the Motherland', but the army failed to reinforce those pillars during the war.

Its also worth noting that the White leadership did have a good technical understanding of modern warfare and were well aware of the many flaws of the Russian military. Denikin and Wrangel criticized the antiquated practices of the Russian army like promotion by seniority and the insufficient training (of both officers and soldiers) and insufficient logistics they witnessed. Its a bit hard to get complacent and believe that everything is fine when seeing the current system result in continual disasters.

 

[Fatt Shea]

The cynic in me says this is hard to answer as the Whites beating the Bolsheviks is probably just the starting bell on Russian Civil War Round 2... After all, the Whites were an incoherent mishmash combining everything from randomly psychopathic warlords; would-be-dictators; monarchists; conservative Republicans; liberal Republicans and various flavours of non-Bolshevik socialist.

And who knows which factions come out ontop then...

I disagree, most prominent leaders like Denikin, Kolchak, Yudenich (Yudenich will be main general depending on POD) all had similar ideology and the wackier leaders would be too small in comparison to rebel against government so they will likely not try to and their soldiers would likely not support this. It could only be equivalent to second civil war if major leaders fight and I do not think they would due to being patriotic (it is only likely if there is complete idiot or belligerent major leaders, this is possible but requires changes other than just white victory).