How did the Bolsheviks get stopped with German help, yet they did nothing during the French civil war to stop the Syndies?

It’s implied that the provisional government of Kerensky succeed from German help because a soviet state next to them would be terrifying and disastrous, and they succeeded in it. Now how did they, a country that lost and was obviously much more weakened by the civil war that occurred in the early 1920’s in France, not win against the Syndies? By that time they weren’t THAT powerful, especially when going up against a country in its border that has just won a civil war, is up against them. What do you think?