WI: Russia Civil War ends in stalemate ?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_SR_uprising

The anti-bolshevik Left S.R. uprising in Moscow, or something similar to it, succeeds, and Moscow and Petrograd become the centers of two competing left-wing power structures. (or we switch it up and the Bolsheviks end up in charge of Moscow and their left-wing opponents with Petrograd)

Kolchak and Denikin fail to reach an understanding, and the Ukrainian anarchists maintain their independence.

Long story short, no faction is capable of reaching critical mass and overpowering the others.

Could such a situation result in a sort of stalemate, with only sporadic clashes along the 'borders' ?

If so, what kind of consequences are we looking at?
 
That would require all sides to have more or less an equal strength, either via local resources or external backing. I can't see the Bolsheviks and Makhno survive beyond isolated pockets in Central Asia or Siberia in the event the Whites are backed by the Entente to an extent they're actually able to match them blow by blow. If they held more ground or joined up with the Left SRs, maybe, but if it looked like the Whites could hold their own, Entente aid is only going to increase.

I think having a stalemate among the White factions is more likely, sort of like the Chinese Warlords Era. The Bolsheviks and Anarcho-Communists were never going to gain popular sympathy outside Russia, so yea...

I still like the idea, though.
 
That would require all sides to have more or less an equal strength, either via local resources or external backing. I can't see the Bolsheviks and Makhno survive beyond isolated pockets in Central Asia or Siberia in the event the Whites are backed by the Entente to an extent they're actually able to match them blow by blow. If they held more ground or joined up with the Left SRs, maybe, but if it looked like the Whites could hold their own, Entente aid is only going to increase.

I think having a stalemate among the White factions is more likely, sort of like the Chinese Warlords Era. The Bolsheviks and Anarcho-Communists were never going to gain popular sympathy outside Russia, so yea...

I still like the idea, though.

In the event of a more shattered Russia along the lines of the Warlord Era, various leftist factions on a similar scale might be more likely to survive as well, yes?
 
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