I find this one of history’s greatest “what ifs”; of course hindsight is 20/20, but it seems like the bolsheviks truly had no basis of power until the unbelievably war weary Russian people saw that they were the only political party calling for peace. Maybe Karensky would’ve formed a democracy, maybe he would’ve been a military dictator, or maybe the SRs, the most popular party through this period, would’ve won in a democratic system and gotten a chance to try out agrarian socialism on a large scale.

Probably the same thing that happened in Poland and the Baltics, the formation of a flawed right-wing democracy (against Kerensky's own wishes for autocratic power) with little hope for economic progress. Maybe there would've still been a revolution later on.