A shorter war does not eliminate Russia's pre-existing revolutionary pressure. A revolution could still occur on a different timetable, tentatively around 1919, and might favor the Mensheviks instead of the Bolsheviks. A Russian diplomatic or military gain against Austria-Hungary could buy the tsar more time without resolving the state's underlying instability. This explicitly speculative scenario separates the revolution's prewar causes from the accelerants created by prolonged world war.
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Russian revolution without a prolonged world war
A shorter war does not erase Russian revolutionary pressure, but it may produce a later Menshevik outcome rather than the historical Bolshevik seizure of power.