Dual Authority Flashcards
Who gave power to the Dual Authority?
General Duke Mikhail relinquished political authority to a hastily convened Provisional Government
Who, at first, governed the Provisional Government?
Prince Lvov, a wealthy aristocrat and zemstvo leader
Who did the Provisional Government consist of?
cross section of the influential elites who had formerly favoured the constitutional monarchy
- Liberals
- Moderate socialists
- Kadets
What did the Provisional Government promise which would draw up a new constitution for Russia ?
that there would be a new Constituent Assembly election
Who accepted the Provisional Government as being legitimate? (4)
- Mikhail
- old Tsarist civil service
- army officers
- police
Where was the Provisional Government set up?
The right wing of the Tauride Palace in Petrograd
What did the mass of workers, soldiers and peasants regard the Provisional Government as?
a self-appointed committee of wealthy aristocrats tainted by their previous associations to Stardom
Where was the Petrograd Soviet established?
In the left wing of the Tauride Palace
Who was included in the Petrograd Soviet? (4)
- Mensheviks
- Social Revolutionaries
- radical socialist intellectuals
- small number of Bolsheviks
In the Petrograd Soviet, how many of the executive committee members were actually workers themselves out of how many?
7 out 42
Who was the only member of both the PG & PS?
Alexander Kerensky
What was the Dual Authority also known as in Russian?
dvoevlastie
What did the Soviets make no attempt to demand from the PG?-
- land redistribution
- nationalisation of industry
What did the PS accept the PG’s promises of ?
8
- general amnesty for all political prisoners
- civil liberties
- abolition of legal disabilities based on class, religion and nationality
- freedom to organise trade unions and to strike
- election of a Constituent Assembly
- Abolished death penalty at the front
- freedom of religion
- freedom of press
What did the PG replace the tsarist police force with ?
a ‘peoples militia’
What did ‘Order No.1 mean’?
-that soldiers and workers should obey the PG but only when the Soviet agreed with the PG
How is it evident that the PG and PS conflicted on areas such as peasants and workers?
the PS encouraged peasants and workers to defy authority and assert their ‘rights’
What was the PG and PS view on war?
PG- wanted to have an all out effort to win the war
PS- wanted to end the war ‘without annexation’ of territory by the Germans as the price of peace
Who made the speech announcing that Russia would continue in the war in April 1917 until a ‘just peace’ had been won?
Milyukov
Who had to resign in May as a result of the popular discontent from the speech in April 1917 that announced Russia would be continuing in war until a ‘just peace’ had been won?
- Milyukov
- Guchkov
Who led the protest which forced Milyukov and Guchkov to resign in May 1917 as a result of the war speech in April 1917 ?
- Public
- Led by the PS
Who replaced Milyukov and Guchkov?
Socialists from the Soviet
- Viktor Chernov
- Alexander Kerensky
- 2 more Mensheviks were added to the cabinet
What was the role of
- Viktor Chernov
- Alexander Kerensky ?
Viktor Chernov- Minister of Agriculture
Alexander Kerensky- Minister of War
When did Kerensky replace Prince Lvov as Chairmain ?
July 1917
