Failings of the Provisional Government

Question 1

REASON: LENIN

Answer 1

• Letters from a far: mapped out ideas wanting revolution
• April thesis: peace bread and land, abandon cooperation with other parties, overthrow the PG, power to the soviets
• compromise:abandoned his call for immediate overthrow of the PG
• persuasion:by end of april Lenin had won over majority of Bolshevik party- all russian congress of soviets vote of confidence passed 543 to 126

Question 2

REASON: KERENSKY

Answer 2

• Kornilov affair: July 1917, Kornilov appointed as commander in chief by Kerensky to restore discipline.
• Food supplies lead to chaos in towns and wages fell rapidly as prices rose.
• 6 regiments of troops to march on Petrograd to crush soviets and establish military dominance
• Empowered bolsheviks:took lead in organising red guards, Trotsky and Zinoviev freed with other bolsheviks, commanded 10k red guards, 23k supporters in feb to 200k by october

Question 3

REASON:WAR

Answer 3

• Germany occupying large swathes of Russian territory
• prices had rose to c775% of pre war levels
• So much of a problem had to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 where they lost:Finland,Estonia,Poland, Ukraine and many more
• Lost 1/6 of population, 26% of Russia’s railway lines, 74% of iron ore and coal supplies, 3 billion roubles in war reparations.