WW2 with a non-communist Russia

Lets say someone else takes power in Russia post-WW1 (either a democracy or military dictatorship) and Nazis still get elected in Germany. How would Russia not ruled by Bolsheviks fare against Germany in World War 2? And if Germany is defeated,how would Russia influence occupied Eastern Europe?
 
a Poland that won the Polish-Soviet War could have borders up to and including Minsk and Kiev. possibly, likely including much of (historical) USSR Jewish population? and allied with France?

they could easily become the target of Nazi regime, while the weaker Russia spared the spotlight?
 
I know you want Hitler to rise to power, but I feel without the Bolsheviks, the German Communist movement would be bolstered.

While Bolshevism was a big reason for Nazis rise to power,it wasn't the only one. Nazis focused a lot more on other platforms like rebuilding German military might and glory,conquest of former territories,uniting all German people etc.
 
While Bolshevism was a big reason for Nazis rise to power,it wasn't the only one. Nazis focused a lot more on other platforms like rebuilding German military might and glory,conquest of former territories,uniting all German people etc.

The etc being Anti-Semitism.
 
Lets say someone else takes power in Russia post-WW1 (either a democracy or military dictatorship) and Nazis still get elected in Germany. How would Russia not ruled by Bolsheviks fare against Germany in World War 2? And if Germany is defeated,how would Russia influence occupied Eastern Europe?

And what non-Bolshevik Russia amounts to? Heavy industry, army, etc.? Without these details there is simply no material for a reasonable guessing.
 

NoMommsen

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I know you want Hitler to rise to power, but I feel without the Bolsheviks, the German Communist movement would be bolstered.
Rather the opposite.
There won't be a "positive" example for the radical ways of socialism of that time (Pls don't forget : the biggist single socialist movement of that time was the german, reformistic, "fortress truce" SPD or later in the the war MSPD distinct from the radical USPD, forerunner of the communist party) having failed to win over the "rotten tsarist" regime.
That in makes communist take-over of the reformistic, socialist "revolution" of 1918/1919 in Germany even more improbable as it proved already IOTL (i.e. Spartakus-uprising) due to much lesser support.
 
World War II would most likely not start in a non-communist Russia timeline or at least would look completely different from OTL, because a non-communist Russia would be France's ally much like it was in WW1 and earlier. Unless a non-communist Russia acquires some serious beef with the Western Allies during the Interwar period (unlikely, but not necessarily impossible - especially if France/Britain and Russia start squabbling over the fate of Poland and the Baltic States or Russian influence in the Balkans), there's not going to be anything like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Hitler would not dare to start a war with France and Russia at once.
 
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