The Provisional Government
Money loaned on easy repayment terms to Russia to finance its war effort. The Provisional Government relied heavily on them, thus decided to continue the war in order to keep receiving them from the Western allies.
This was a political outline written and published by Lenin, mainly demanding a second revolution for the soviet and an overthrow of the Provisional Government.
What were the April Theses?
He refused the title on the pretext that it had not been offered to him by a Russian constituent assembly, after Nicholas II abdicated and nominated him as the new Tsar.
Who was the Grand Duke Michael?
This was a Russian government established by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution, it was an executive committee and a cabinet of ministers, containing 17 different commissars.
What was Sovnarkom?
This event was the prelude of October Revolution that enabled Bolsheviks to come back as “Saviors of Petrograd” with Provisional Government severely damaged.
What was the Kornilov Affair?
Provisional government failed to solve this due to the propertied class that primarily dominated the government personnel, this provided Lenin a chance to gain support from the majority of Russians.
What was the Land Problem?
This restriction declared that in military matters, orders of Provisional Government were to be obeyed ‘only when they do not contradict the orders and decrees of the Soviet’.
What was the Soviet Order Number 1?
On this day, over 50,000 workers went on strike and thousands of women joined strikers in demonstrations on February 23th, calling for not only higher wages and bread but also for female equality.
What was the International Women’s Day in 1917 Russia?
The essence of Lenin’s argument was summed up in two provocative Bolshevik slogans. This one particular slogan expressed Lenin’s way of presenting in simple, dramatic headings the basic problems confronting Russia.
What was “Peace, Bread and Land”?
This group of people went on strikes and protests on an island, the naval base situated 30 km west of Petrograd. They defied the central authorities by setting up their own separate government.
Who were the Kronstadt sailors?
As the bridge between the Soviet and the Provisional Government, he later became the first Minister for war and the Prime Minister of the PG in July 1917. He was also a lawyer and a leading SR member in the duma.
Who was Alexander Kerensky?
This was a group of people which split from the SR. They aligned themselves with the Bolsheviks who sided with the Bolshevik Party on all major issues.
Who were the Left SRs?
A full-scale strike was started on 18 February 1917 by this group of employees, who worked in the largest and most politically active factory in Petrograd.
Who were the Putilov steel workers?
Lenin was urgent and convinced that the Bolsheviks would have to take power before this event occurred in November as a minority party in Russia, or else they would not be able to assume absolute power.
What was the election for the Constituent Assembly?
This was a disunited opposition movement triggered by the workers and peasants. It revealed facts that at that time, the Bolsheviks were still unable to become the dominant revolutionary party and the provisional government still had power to put down uprisings.
What were the July Days?
As the leader of the Provisional Government between March and July 1917, this person continued with the war against Germany and had to resign after the July Days unrest.
Who was Prince Lvov?
He was the head of secret police, the Cheka, and set up headquarters in the ‘Lubyanka’ in Moscow, which was famous for its torture and executions that were carried out there.
Who was Felix Dzerzhinski?
Tsar’s royal train was intercepted on its journey back to the Petrograd and was forced to divert to this place, where a group of generals from Stavka met Tsar and advised abdication.
Where is Pskov?
It was set up by the soviet to organize the defence of Petrograd against a possible German attack or another Kornilov-type assault from within Russia.
What is the Military Revolutionary Committee? (Milrevcom/MRC)
Alexander Kerensky ordered this campaign in June 1917, an attempt to push the Austrians back. However this failed and gravely damaged the popularity of the Provisional Government, contributing to protests during July.
What was the June Offensive/the Kerensky Offensive?
This new set of volunteer law-enforcement officers was drawn from ordinary people to replace the Tsarist police, and was first set up as one of the reforms carried out by the Provisional Government.
What was the People’s Militia?
This was the way of coordination (cooperation) between the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet, suggested by Kamenev, supported by Stalin, and totally rejected by Lenin once he was back in Petrograd.
What was Accommodationism?
As the duma president, he warned the Tsar that ‘very serious outbreaks of unrest’ were imminent by sending a telegram and later suggested Tsar Nicholas to make a major concession on the government’s part —— to abdicate.
Who was Mikhail Rodzianko?
These two Bolshevik newspapers were closed down by Kerensky on 23rd of October, immediately after this Lenin instructed the Bolsheviks to begin the rising against the Provisional Government.
What was Pravda and Izvestiya?
After the Kornilov Affair, in order block Lenin’s plan to overthrow the Provisional Government, Kerensky proposed a creation of this organization, which was to be a body with authority to advise the government and was intended to fill the interim before the Constituent Assembly came into being.
What was the “pre-parliament”?