WI Russian Civil War was purely socialists vs reactionaries vs ethnic separatists

With a POD after the February Revolution, how can we get a Russian Civil War between:

  • A socialist and republican revolutionary coalition government on one side (at a minimum it must represent an alliance of the Left SRs, Bolsheviks, and Mensheviks, with maybe the anarchists and a few Right SRs too) called the 'Reds';
  • A reactionary and counterrevolutionary movement of militarists, Tsarist officers, aristocrats, monarchists, conservatives, liberal business interests (Kadets, etc), industrialists, Great Russian and Orthodox chauvinists, Black Hundreds, Cossacks, etc, called the 'Whites'; and
  • Ethnic nationalist separatists (Ukrainian and Baltic nationalists, Central Asian Basmachis, Caucasus secessionists, etc)
 
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Impossible.

By the time of the Revolution, the Bolsheviks had already formed themselves as enemies of the both the more centrist republican government and the reactionary faction.
On the other hand, many of the ethnic secessionists themselves straddled the line between 'Reds' and 'Whites'.
 
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