Apr, 1917 EVIDENCE Flashcards
The April Theses were a series of ten directives issued by the Bolshevik leader […]
upon his return to Petrograd from his exile in […]
Vladimir Lenin
Switzerland (via Germany and Finland)
In the April Theses, Lenin:
Condemns the PG as bourgeois and urges what support for it?
Condemns WWI as a “predatory […]”
Asserts that Russia is “passing from the first stage of the revolution… to its second stage, which must place power in the hands of the […]
“no support” for it
imperialist war”
proletariat”
Which two groups formed the Dual Power Provisional Government in March, 1917?
One man belonged to both groups. He was SR […]
- The Provisional Committee
- The Petrograd Soviet
Alexander Kerensky
What (officially) did the PG aim to do?
Elect a constituent assembly (plus the PG was “Provisional”)
Ministers in the PG’s first cabinet were overwhelmingly from […]
The Kadets
Soviets like the Petrograd Soviet controlled [TTT]
Troops, Transport, Telegraph
What did the Provisional Government want? Why freedom of [PUS] of course!
[P]ress, [U]nions, [S]peech
The first head of the Provisional Government was […]
Prince Lviv
The June Offensive was ordered by […]
and led by […]
Alexander Kerensky
General Aleksei Brusilov
Timing? Following the Feb Rev, there were strong popular demands for […]
peace
Discipline within the Russian Army had reached a point of […]
crisis
The Petrograd Soviet’s Order No.1 tremendously weakened […]
the power of officers
Other factors insuring defeat were […]
- The abolition of the death penalty
2. The high presence of revolutionary agitators at the front, including Bolsheviks
The June Offensive succeeded or failed?
failed
The decision to sustain the war effort was also driving a wedge between the PG and […]
This was undermining Dual […]
socialists
Power
In mid-April, foreign minister Pavel Miliukov penned a telegram to the Allies, informing them that Russia would remain […]
Miliukov’s telegram was later leaked to the press, which triggered large […]
in the war until its conclusion
public demonstrations in Petrograd
Pipes claims these April uprisings were the Bolsheviks’ first attempt at a […]
coup
Whatever the case, Miliukov was kicked out in May and by June Kerensky was launching […]
The June Offensive to get a win and improve war morale
In the first days of July 1917, a spontaneous uprising erupted in […]
The uprising became known as […]
Petrograd
The July Days
The July Days uprising was fuelled by two key factors […]
- The PG’s attempt to escalate the war effort
2. A constant stream of Bolshevik propaganda condemning the PG and calling for a transfer of power to the Soviets
By the beginning of July, thousands on the streets of Petrograd thought the time had come for a […]
Most were disgruntled factory workers, soldiers and sailors; many were card-carrying members of the […]
Soviet revolution
Bolshevik party
The Bolshevik hierarchy gave the July demonstrations what sort of support?
but refused to back a direct […]
This seems to have been driven by Lenin, who was aware that spontaneous and unplanned revolutions usually […]
tacit support
challenge to the PG
failed
Lenin was not prepared to strake his political future on a […]
disorganised mob
Starved of leadership, the July uprising […]
dwindled and failed
Rightly or not, the Bolsheviks were held responsible for the July uprising, their leaders […]
arrested or driven into exile (Kerensky arrested 800 Bolsheviks)
By late July 1917, the Bolshevik movement seemed […]
to have been defeated
Who succeeded Lviv as President of the PG?
Alexander Kerensky
After the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II, who was given command of the Petrograd Military District in March 1917?
Lavr Kornilov
In July, after commanding the only successful front in the disastrous Russian offensive of June 1917, Kornilov became […]
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the PG’s armed forces
Kornilov was serving who?
And Kerensky had just destroyed which group after the July Days?
Kerensky (the president)
The Bolsheviks
The Kornilov affair was a confused episode in August 1917, where for a time the PG seemed to be under threat from […]
it’s own army
For several days, which a career officer loyal to Tsarism attempted to gather both troops and financial support so he could occupy Petrograd and restore order?
Kornilov
Kornilov claimed to be acting on whose instructions during the Kornilov affair?
Kerensky, however, came, rightly or wrongly, to see Kornilov as a […]
Kerensky’s
counter-revolutionary who wanted to attack the PG
Kerensky believed Kornilov wanted to install himself as a […]
rightist military dictator
Kerensky, thinking he needed to defend himself against his own army, released and armed which group?
The Bolsheviks
