July days - Quiz Flashcards
What was the trigger for the July Days protests?
The failure of the June Offensive coupled with ongoing PG failures
The rise of working-class militancy was due to a belief that who was to blame for the continuing hardships?
Capitalist bourgeoisie
What was happening in the countryside in June/July? (4 things)
Manor houses (large farm properties) torched; staff run off estates; property seized ands shared by villages; landowners who resisted beaten or killed
The Second coalition collapsed after what happened?
Kadets ministers resigned due to loss of authority and disagreement over policy
Which Military Regiment in Petrograd supported the protestors because they were going to be sent to the front?
1st Machine Gun Regiment
Who did not support the protestors but urged restraint?
The Bolshevik Leaders
Name the intermediary (person who is a ‘go-between’) between Kerensky and Kornilov?
Vladimir N. Lvov “a well-meaning though naïve and muddleheaded busybody” according to Rabinowitch
Who organised the defence of Petrograd against Kornilov?
The Bolsheviks using their new “Red Guard” workers’ militias
Who actually saved Petrograd from Kerensky’s army?
The Union of Russian Railway Workers shunted the trains into stations. Soviet soldiers then convinced troops through windows on the train
What did Lenin decide once the third (and last) Provisional Government Coalition was formed?
“The Bolsheviks…can and must take state power into their own hands.”
