WI: No Kerensky offensive: Russia's provisional government makes peace and survives 1917

Like 1937 China.

No. Nazi takeover was driven by internal German politics and Great Depression, neither dependent on anything happening in Russia.

No. They can't even loot the place - Russian railway system was broken by the end of 1916. You may even see earlier American entry into the war.

Yes.

No Communism means to big boogeyman for the Nazis to use to gain political power though
 
All US Debt was fully secured by Assets inside the USA until after the USA joins the war.
US didn't start to loan Entente money because Entente had much assets to offer in exchange for the goods from across the Atlantic. The assets Entente powers had in US were not limitless, nor could they be easily converted to compensate for goods and cash sent across the ocean, otherwise the entire scheme with ballooning debt would never be enacted in the first place. Seizing defaulting Entente's assets would be a consolation prize at best.
As of Jan 1917, US relations with the Entente (and esp with GB) were if anything worse than with Germany. SoS Lansing - far more pro-Entente than Wilson - was deeply disturbed by the President's failure to take any action over the sinkings of armed British merchantmen. He had sent Wilson two memos on this w/o getting a reply, and was in the middle of a third when Ambassador Bernstorff arrived with the German note announcing USW.
So your idea of US-Entente relations being bad is the fact that US didn't do something about Entente's armed merchantmen being sunk by Germans? In a war in which US was not even an active participant? Was Wilson supposed to fly to France and shield Entente's soldiers from German bullets as well?
Americans were loaning huge amounts of money and shipping loads of goods to Entente, not Germany. This is a real indication of US-Entente's relations compared to US-German relations.
No Communism means to big boogeyman for the Nazis to use to gain political power though
Nazis gained political power via Great Depression, revanchism, pro-big business economic program and unconstitutional coup supported from inside by conservative government leadership. Communism was irrelevant to the actual process. Hindenburg wasn't senile because of communism, nor did Weimar constitution contain critical loophole because of communism and Papen's lust for power and short-sightedness were most certainly not communism-related.
 
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The problem is that because the government's control over the countryside was weak, when 1905 and 1917 came along a lot of the peasants were simply able to murder their landowners without the government being able to stop them.
You mean the one landowner (one) that peasants killed in uprising 1905?

Mass murders of landowners and kulaks were done by Bolshevik government after they seized power, not spontaneous violence by peasants.
 
US didn't start to loan Entente money because Entente had much assets to offer in exchange for the goods from across the Atlantic. The assets Entente powers had in US were not limitless, nor could they be easily converted to compensate for goods and cash sent across the ocean, otherwise the entire scheme with ballooning debt would never be enacted in the first place. Seizing defaulting Entente's assets would be a consolation prize at best.

So your idea of US-Entente relations being bad is the fact that US didn't do something about Entente's armed merchantmen being sunk by Germans? In a war in which US was not even an active participant? Was Wilson supposed to fly to France and shield Entente's soldiers from German bullets as well?
Americans were loaning huge amounts of money and shipping loads of goods to Entente, not Germany. This is a real indication of US-Entente's relations compared to US-German relations.

That disparity just reflected the fact that the Entente had assets in America which could be used as security for loans, while Germany did not.

No unsecured loans were made prior to US entry into the war, and hesitantly even then. Indeed, as late as November 1916 the Federal Reserve, with Wilson's approval, made an announcement discouraging such loans.

As to US-Entente relations, in September 1916 Congress had empowered the President to deny clearance from US ports to the ships of any nations which discriminated against American firms. This was to clear the way, if necessary, for retaliation against Britain for its blacklisting of companies which attempted to trade with the CP. Congress was not at all pro-Entente at this time, and if the loans so far made had committed America to the Entente, no one had bothered to tell either them or the President that such was the case. The eventual DoW was brought about by submarine attacks on US shipping, aggravated by the Zimmermann Note. There is no evidence whatever that the loans, as they stood in April 1917, had anything at all to do with it.
 
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