Dual Authority

Question 1

Who was a part of the dual authority?

Answer 1

• The provisional government
• The Petrograd soviet

Question 2

Who made up the Petrograd soviet?

Answer 2

• Workers
• Soldiers
• Socialist intellectuals
• Peasants
• Radical Socialist intellectuals
• SR & Menshevik leadership

Question 3

Aims and Policies of Pet Sov

Answer 3

• Amnesty for political prisoners
• Abolition of legal disabilities based on class, religion, nationality
• Freedom to organise trade unions & to strike
• Land redistribution to peasants
• Creation of Order no. 1
• Asserting & Protecting rights

Question 4

What was Order No. 1?

Answer 4

Members of the pet sov should only obey the prov gov if the soviet agrees with it

Question 5

Key figures within the Petrograd Soviet?

Answer 5

• Alexsandr Kerensky (Minister of War)
• Viktor Chernov (Minister of Agriculture)

Question 6

Pet Sov attitude towards prov gov:

Answer 6

• Saw them as a self-appointed committee of the wealthy
• tainted by previous associations with tsardom

Question 7

Pet sov attitudes towards war:

Answer 7

• Should end as quickly as possible
• No annexation of territory by the germans

Question 8

Who made up the Provisional Government

Answer 8

• Influential elites
• Those in favour of constitutional monarchy
• liberals
• moderate socialists
• kadets

Question 9

Aims and policies of the Prov Gov:

Answer 9

• Civil liberty introduced
• continued participation in war
• worker & soldier soviets
• economic policies aimed to stabilise failing russian economy
• Freedom of speech

Question 10

What was the original intention of the Prov Gov?

Answer 10

To be a temporary gov until the election of the constituent assembly

Question 11

Key figures of the Prov Gov:

Answer 11

• Prince Georgy Lvov (leader)
• Milyukov (foreign minister)
• Guchkov (minister of trade)
• Kerensky (minister of justice)

Question 12

Prov gov attitudes towards the soviet:

Answer 12

• Initially collaborated with them
• began to challenge their authority
• Resisted the soviet demand for reform
• Relationship became hostile with the rise of the bolsheviks

Question 13

Prov Gov attitude towards war:

Answer 13

• Felt bound to their alliances
• Relied on french loans for survival
• Bolsheviks attracting workers with talks of peace

Question 14

What freedoms were given to the people in spring 1917?

Answer 14

• Amnesty for political prisoners
• Freedom of speech, press, assembly
• Abolition of class restriction
• Abolition of religion and nationality restriction
• Abolition of police bodies