Most likely Form of Government following a White Victory in the RCW

[Alexniko]

I've been reading a lot about the White Movement recently, yet I couldn't really get a satisfactory answer to that question due to the vagueness of the White's manifestos and the complex political situation in Russia at the time. What do you guys think would've most likely resulted from a White Victory and why?

What about it's promises to hold elections to a new Constituent Assembly? What about the monarchist sentiments among the majority of it's officers?

 

[AltoRegnant]

I'm of the opinion that the civil war would simply continue on with the reds gone, as the white army was about as united as a herd of cats. so my "something else," is more of a "no way to know and you could conceivably say any"

 

[powerthirteen]

A militaristic, patrimonial dictatorship under an authoritarian strongman, e.g. Denikin, Kolchak, Wrangel etc.

 

[Carl Schwamberger]

Dysfunctional

 

[Alanith]

A flustercuck.

 

[powerthirteen]

Dysfunctional

Not necessarily.

It depends entirely on which White faction is in charge.

 

[powerthirteen]

A flustercuck.

At least better than the Reds, I suppose?

 

[ObssesedNuker]

At least better than the Reds, I suppose?

Maybe, maybe not.

 

[Johnrankins]

Maybe, maybe not.

Between Lenin and Stalin it is hard to do worse.

 

[ObssesedNuker]

Between Lenin and Stalin it is hard to do worse.

I mean, part of the problem is that the Whites were so diverse a group that, had they managed to defeat the Bolsheviks, there probably would have been a second Civil War to decide exactly who gets to be in charge. And from that point, anything goes. A Russian-version of the Nazis or Khmer Rouge is as possible as a Russian-version of the Continental Congress or the Kemalists or whatever.

Stalin and, to a lesser extent, Lenin winning the Civil War were a pretty bad result for Russia. But it's perfectly conceivable they might have wound-up with even worse.

 

[Doglover285]

Idk if the result would have been much better than Lenin winning. White terror tended to be very, very bloody so in terms of people dying it would be either similar or worse.

 

[Carl Schwamberger]

A Russians opinion to me was it takes a Stalin to replace a Stalin.

 

[Deleted member 90949]

They would all fight each other if the reds were not a threat. There is no way Kerenskyite socialists and Tsarists are ever getting along. It was the Kerenskyites who overthrew the Czar in the first place.

 

[Slime_blob]

a presidential dictatorship plus some warlordism like what KMT China had become

 

[Aisha Clan-Clan]

generic latin american style cuadilloism

 

[Johnrankins]

I mean, part of the problem is that the Whites were so diverse a group that, had they managed to defeat the Bolsheviks, there probably would have been a second Civil War to decide exactly who gets to be in charge. And from that point, anything goes. A Russian-version of the Nazis or Khmer Rouge is as possible as a Russian-version of the Continental Congress or the Kemalists or whatever.

Stalin and, to a lesser extent, Lenin winning the Civil War were a pretty bad result for Russia. But it's perfectly conceivable they might have wound-up with even worse.

Possibly, but the odds were against it. There are considerably more governments better than Lenin/Stalin than worse.

 

[Hugh Third of Five]

A banana republic.

 

[Lee-Sensei]

At least better than the Reds, I suppose?

Better in what way is the question. Even if the reds lose, they’re going to need to give something to the people or the same problems that lead to the revolution are going to remain.

 

[Gabingston]

A banana republic.

Or a vodka republic.

 

[sarahz]

Dysfunctional

Definitely that but anywhere between just a mess or full blown apocaypse now is possible depending which White faction is temporarily in charge this week.