Dual Power

Question 1

Lenin

Answer 1

Returns April 1917 April theses published in Pravda paper

Some Bol felt he was too radical some liked him

Question 2

July Days

Answer 2

Workers, soldiers and sailors angry at war continuation

Grain prices doubled from poor harvest (100,000 jobs lost)

Bolsheviks slogans chanted meant leaders were arrested

Question 3

Kornilov affair

Answer 3

26-30 August 1917

Kerensky made Kornilov C in C

Kornilov suspected Bolshevik revolution so marched on capital to establish mil dictatorship

Kerensky named him counter-revolutionary and Cossacks convinced his troops to step down

Question 4

Bolsheviks seizure

Answer 4

After winter palace it was announced to Soviet Congress and a socialist government was agreed

Mensheviks and SRs walked out outraged by criminal action (allowed a majority)

Question 5

Constituent Assembly elections

Answer 5

All could vote (true democracy)

SR-38%
Bol-24%

5th Jan troops shot at 50,000 unarmed protestors marching in defence of elections (10 dead)