DIFFICULTIES FACING PROV GOV
- Created by: 10cmurphy
- Created on: 05-04-17 16:05
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- Difficulties facing the Prov Gov
- Immediate problems
- Prov Gov membership was mainly Cadets and Octobrists
- Didn't include Mensheviks or Bolsheviks
- These formed a rival power base
- Dual government-made it more difficult to make decisions
- Allowed more political freedom
- Gov criticised more than before
- June 1917-Soviet became the All-Russia Soviet
- Issued Order Number 1
- Soviet dominated by left-wing (rival to the Prov Gov)
- Effective gov needed in 1917 but dual made it hard
- Impact of WW1, March-October
- Brit and France offered money to Prov Gov if they stayed in war
- Military morale improved after abdication
- Poor supplies and economic problems
- March, Soviets declared they would only declare a defensive war
- April, demonstrations against war more common
- Role of Alexander Kerensky
- Prov Gov supported June Offensive
- Offensive failed-mass desertions
- Member of Socialist Revolutionaries-connections to both Prov Gov and Petrograd Soviet
- Became Prime Minister in July 1917
- Failed to resolve the problems facing Russia
- Prov Gov supported June Offensive
- Developments in rural Russia
- Prov Gov controlled major cities-countryside influence limited
- Political, social and economic problems rising in countryside
- Immediate problems
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