"A victory for Germany would have avoided bolshevism in Russia and the Second World War"
--- Recall though that it was the Germans who shipped Lenin at al on a sealed train into Russia.
Yes, to take Russia out of the war.
The scenario in the article is, Germany abandons the Schliffen plan, leaves France alone, and fights Russia. Despite treaty obligations, France and Britain then engage in an earlier case of funny war, because their livelihood is not threatened by the events on the Eastern Front. The Russian Empire collapses, but without the exhaustion of a 3-year trench warfare, the Bolshies have no chance and instead a weak and democratic government is established. Russia stays benign, German interests are directed toward the East, and the Western civilization dies at a slower rate.
The war started because the Tsar's government supported Serbian regicides. While I do not approve of the deal with Lenin in the least, it has a sort of tragic poetic justice to it.