WI/AHC: Soviet westward offensives of late 1910s more successful

So, let's assume that the Russian Civil War ended earlier (no Czechoslovak Legion's rebellion, earlier peace at the Brest Litovsk with less territories ceded to the Germans). What would happen if the Soviets pushed further west than OTL (assuming that World War 1 lasted few months longer due to transfer of German eastern divisions on the Western Front)? How big the Soviet Union could be and what form it will assume?
 
It might be able to get Polish Ukraine and/or Ruthenia as late as the Soviet-Polish War if either a) Pilsudski's gambit at Warsaw doesn't work out or B) Stalin abandons Lvov to support Tukhachevsky when ordered. Anything more than that, however, seems unlikely, since both Germany (as the Freikorps are able) and the Entente will support Poland and ethnic Polish resistance will be an issue. 'Pushing on to Germany over the corpse of Poland', as Tukhachevsky phrased it, will be logistically and militarily impossible.
 
It might be able to get Polish Ukraine and/or Ruthenia as late as the Soviet-Polish War if either a) Pilsudski's gambit at Warsaw doesn't work out or B) Stalin abandons Lvov to support Tukhachevsky when ordered. Anything more than that, however, seems unlikely, since both Germany (as the Freikorps are able) and the Entente will support Poland and ethnic Polish resistance will be an issue. 'Pushing on to Germany over the corpse of Poland', as Tukhachevsky phrased it, will be logistically and militarily impossible.

Russian Civil War was basically over by mid-1918, interrupted only by the seizure of Transsiberian railroad and east by Czechoslovakians. If they can settle things two years earlier than OTL, then they should have more power to crush Western countries, exhausted by the four years of constant warfare.
 
then they should have more power to crush Western countries, exhausted by the four years of constant warfare.
Problem is, the Russians were even more exhausted before the Civil War than the other Great Powers, and Revolutionary fervor only takes you so far, see Napoleon going into Russia.

Logistics matter
 
It might be able to get Polish Ukraine and/or Ruthenia as late as the Soviet-Polish War if either a) Pilsudski's gambit at Warsaw doesn't work out or B) Stalin abandons Lvov to support Tukhachevsky when ordered. Anything more than that, however, seems unlikely, since both Germany (as the Freikorps are able) and the Entente will support Poland and ethnic Polish resistance will be an issue. 'Pushing on to Germany over the corpse of Poland', as Tukhachevsky phrased it, will be logistically and militarily impossible.

Actually, even pushing to Warsaw proved to be a logistical nightmare with a predictable failure at the end of it. Not to mention that the Red Army was ill equipped, Soviet military production was inadequate for the needs of a serious war, transportation even within Soviet Russia was in the shambles, etc.
 
Russian Civil War was basically over by mid-1918, interrupted only by the seizure of Transsiberian railroad and east by Czechoslovakians. If they can settle things two years earlier than OTL, then they should have more power to crush Western countries, exhausted by the four years of constant warfare.

The RCW only really started in 1918 (formation of the Volunteer Army began in the end of 1917 and its first operations had been conducted in January of 1918) and lasted until 1922/23. Or, if you want a "shorter version", it ended in the late 1920 with capture of the Crimea. Serious work on creation of the Red Army started only in January of 1918 and (after the numerous defeats) mandatory conscription of the rural peasantry and usage of the "military specialists" started from June of 1918. So how exactly could the RCW be "basically over by mid-1918"?
 
The RCW only really started in 1918 (formation of the Volunteer Army began in the end of 1917 and its first operations had been conducted in January of 1918) and lasted until 1922/23. Or, if you want a "shorter version", it ended in the late 1920 with capture of the Crimea. Serious work on creation of the Red Army started only in January of 1918 and (after the numerous defeats) mandatory conscription of the rural peasantry and usage of the "military specialists" started from June of 1918. So how exactly could the RCW be "basically over by mid-1918"?

"In the main, however, the task of suppressing the resistance of the exploiters was fulfilled in the period from October 25, 1917, to (approximately) February 1918, or to the surrender of Bogayevsky." Quote from: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm

1920 would be still earlier than 1922/23, with less people getting killed and less industry being wrecked by a war. Longer World war 1 could alone cause a revolution in the West.
 
"In the main, however, the task of suppressing the resistance of the exploiters was fulfilled in the period from October 25, 1917, to (approximately) February 1918, or to the surrender of Bogayevsky." Quote from: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm

1920 would be still earlier than 1922/23, with less people getting killed and less industry being wrecked by a war. Longer World war 1 could alone cause a revolution in the West.

Sorry, but that quote is irrelevant within the context of the RCW because it is written before the RCW really started: in March 1918 Lenin was excessively optimistic about the near future (his ability to do projections was much inferior to his ability to find the way out of the troubles he created).

1920 is a year when the Voluntary Army was forced to evacuate from the Crimea. Fall of 1922 is the time when Japanese left Russian territory allowing Red Army to enter Vladivostok. Taking into an account that at that time most of the Russian industry was in Europe and Siberia, 1922 had little to do with its further destruction.
 
1918 was the year when Bolsheviks ceded half of European Russia to Germany and we seen as German agents for the fall of the country. 1917 was the year when they refused one of the most generous peace offers of WW1, which would leave them without only Poland, Lithuania and Courland - with a vast more territories and men to fight for them. Maybe war could end around 1919 - with longer WW1 it would be ideally placed right in the powderkeg of the revolutionary period in Europe.
 
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