It was bound to be overthrown by rightists and we’d see Russia turn into a somehow even more repressive version of the empire.
It wouldn’t even need to be overthrown by the right: they were already in power. The Mensheviks were actively collaborating with and elevating the Cadets while using reactionary forces to attack the left in the streets. There were a long list of grievances that led the congress of soviets to vote for revolution, but the active and impending reactionary violence from the Provisional Government were the key points that brought the representatives over to the side of the Bolsheviks (along with Bolsheviks just being more popular among the locally-elected Soviets than any other faction). At least that’s how Jack Reed recounts it in 10 Days that Shook the World.
By “the right”, I meant elements of the military who were growing increasingly frustrated with the Provisional Government’s handling of the situation and wanted to replace the nominally democratic bourgeois state with a straight up military dictatorship. Hence why Kornilov decided to do his pro gamer move.
Never forget that reactionaries are also prone to infighting :fash-infighting: