Evaluate the reasons for the overthrow of the Provisional government in October/November 1917

Question 1

Intro

Answer 1

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Question 2

Woods + Left Wing historians: conditions were ripe for the revolutions

Answer 2

Woods + LW historians –> conditons were ripe for rev

• PV made many mistakes –> Waller “it is unlikely this coup could have come abot if there had not been profound disillusionment with the PV”
• Like the Tsar, it was not elected and was illegitimate
• Darby - “it was almost doomed from failure to the start2
• Jan 1917 –> Prices 300% of 1914 levels AND by October they had risen to 755%
• Kornilov Affair –> Kerensky released Bolsheviks from prison and armed them with 40 k rifles

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