DIFFICULTIES FACING PROV GOV

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  • 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
    • Developments in rural Russia
      • Prov Gov controlled major cities-countryside influence limited
      • Political, social and economic problems rising in countryside

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