I do genuinely wonder what would have happened if full blown fascism had taken root in Russia before Germany.

But I'm also predisposed to just slap the Matt Christman button and proclaim "Overdetermined". When you look at the seeds of the Soviet Revolution as inherently anti-war and you recognize the White Army as a bunch of military brass without a proletariat enlisted force to draw from, the only real question is why they didn't collapse sooner. The White Army was outnumbered nearly six to one and fighting a rear-guard action pretty much from the day of its inception. The leaders were scattered, the operations uncoordinated, and their goals of retaking the revolutionary interior were little more than a fantasy.

The Whites were facing all the same struggles as their Red counterparts - food shortages, typhoid run rampant, deterioration of the nation's productive capacity, mass casualties from simple poverty - and were in an even worse position to resist them if they somehow had butchered their way back into Moscow or St. Petersburg. They would have played the Russian KMT to Stalin's Long March Maoists in another ten years, in the absolute best case scenario.

What is fascism even worth without the engine of modern industry? Its just screaming into the wind.