Opposition to the Provisional Government, April to July Flashcards
From April to July of 1917 support for the Provisional Government…
deteriorated.
Lenin’s return to Russia in April 1917 was a…
turning point in attitudes towards the Provisional Government.
In March 1917 all the major Marxist and socialist parties in Russia had accepted that Russia was not…
ready for a socialist revolution - Lenin rejected this consensus.
What did Lenin set out as soon as he arrived in Petrograd?
His April Theses.
What three major slogans did the April Theses contain?
Peace - appealed to war-weary soldiers and workers and peasants who had suffered due to the war
Land - appealed to Russian peasants who wanted to revolution to lead to land reform, and who, over time, had become frustrated at the Provisional Government’s refusal to distribute land
Bread - promised an end to the hardship of the war
Lenin argued for ‘all power to…
the Soviets’ - workers and peasants trusted the Soviets more than the Provisional Government - became increasingly popular.
