WI: Whites win the Russian Civil War

This.

Simply put, they don't have enough legitimacy with the populace to ever do anything.



Tens of millions could still die from the Whites trying to purge their society of the elements that caused the Civil War, or trying to futiely get the populace to see them as legitimate again. So really, those tens of millions could still die, just from a different brutality.

What Russia needed were the Mensheviks, not the Whites or the Bolsheviks.
Better yet, a multiparty democracy. People have pointed out how hard it would be for Kerensky's provisional government to succeed, but that low probability event is probably Russia's best chance. Imo.
 

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This.

Simply put, they don't have enough legitimacy with the populace to ever do anything.



Tens of millions could still die from the Whites trying to purge their society of the elements that caused the Civil War, or trying to futiely get the populace to see them as legitimate again. So really, those tens of millions could still die, just from a different brutality.

What Russia needed were the Mensheviks, not the Whites or the Bolsheviks.

Or even better, the Socialist Revolutionaries! I'd read a President Chernov TL!
 
Better yet, a multiparty democracy. People have pointed out how hard it would be for Kerensky's provisional government to succeed, but that low probability event is probably Russia's best chance. Imo.

Well, yes, but that's just a tad bit difficult in a country like Russia. We're talking... well, not ASB, but borderline without PODs before 1900.
 

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Well, yes, but that's just a tad bit difficult in a country like Russia. We're talking... well, not ASB, but borderline without PODs before 1900.

If there's enough pressure I could see the generals agree to a symbolic duma and a civilian government, but the generals would still have veto over all legislation, and I have a hard time seeing the civilian government to hold any real authority outside Petrograd and Moscow.
 
If there's enough pressure I could see the generals agree to a symbolic duma and a civilian government, but the generals would still have veto over all legislation, and I have a hard time seeing the civilian government to hold any real authority outside Petrograd and Moscow.

These White or Red Generals?

Additionally, remember, the populace is key here. If a democracy was to work, it'd be because the populace was forcing their government into being for legitimacy.
 
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