Provisional Government

Question 1

What was the role of the Petrograd Soviet

Answer 1

A supervisory role

Question 2

How was the Petrograd Soviet able to restrict the Provisional Government?

Answer 2

Through Soviet Order Number One

Question 3

What did the Petrograd Soviet seek to do?

Answer 3

Make sure the interests or workers and soldiers were being fulfilled

Question 4

What does Soviet Order Number 1 state?

Answer 4

That the Provisional Government have no control of the army

Question 5

What did having no control over the army mean for the Provisional Government?

Answer 5

Its authority was weakened

Question 6

Give some of the early achievements of the provisional government

Answer 6

Amnesty for political prisoners
Recognition of trade unions
Introduction of any eight hour work day
Replacement of Tsarist police with peoples militia

Question 7

How many desertions were there between March and May?

Answer 7

3,650,000

Question 8

What kind of situation did the provisional government find themselves in in terms of war?

Answer 8

A paradoxical one

Question 9

Why couldnt the provisional government leave the war?

Answer 9

They needed cash and supplies from the western allies

Question 10

Why couldn’t the provisional government stay in the war?

Answer 10

The general populous was discontented and the army was unhappy

Question 11

How did the Provisional Government’s failure to leave the war help the Bolsheviks?

Answer 11

They gained support because they supported leaving the war

Question 12

What did the Bolshevik attitude on war align them with?

Answer 12

Popular opinion

Question 13

What did the Provisional Government refuse to allow?

Answer 13

Land seizures

Question 14

How did the Pro Gov want land reform to be?

Answer 14

Lawful and fair

Question 15

What did the Pro Gov set up to deal with land reform

Answer 15

The Land Commission

Question 16

Why would the Pro Gov unlikely be enthusiasts for land reform?

Answer 16

The came from the landed and propertied classes so wouldn’t be enthusiastic about a policy that would threaten their own existence

Question 17

In terms of war why were the Pro Gov reluctant to go ahead with Land Reform?

Answer 17

They feared it could lead to wholesale desertions where soldiers of peasant origin would leave the front and return home

Question 18

What did failure of the Pro Gov to deal with land reform lead to?

Answer 18

Support for the Bolsheviks

Question 19

Why did the Land issue help the Bolsheviks gain support?

Answer 19

They encouraged land seizures

Question 20

What land policy did the Bolsheviks support?

Answer 20

“Land to the peasantry”

Question 21

Where did their land to the peasantry policy gain the Bolsheviks huge support? Why?

Answer 21

Petrograd, the soldiers of the Petrograd garrison were mostly of peasant origin

Question 22

How was the Land to the Peasantry an opportunistic policy?

Answer 22

The bolsheviks were going against their own ideology to gain support

Question 23

How were land seizures suppressed?

Answer 23

By armed force

Question 24

What did the Pro Gov set up on grain?

Answer 24

A state monopoly

Question 25

What were the prices of grain set at?

Answer 25

60% above the Tsarist level

Question 26

What was the price of grain not linked to? What did this cause

Answer 26

The price rises in consumer goods. Meant producers had no incentive to sell

Question 27

How did workers become very organised after the revolution?

Answer 27

By forming soviets, trade unions and factory committees

Question 28

What did workers negotiate with employers over?

Answer 28

Working conditions and management of the factory

Question 29

In some cases what were workers groups powerful enough to do

Answer 29

Undermine factory workers control

Question 30

What had the Pro Gov given permission to owners of factories to do?

Answer 30

Dismiss workers and ban the committees from meeting during work hours

Question 31

what were set up to manage housing and accomodation

Answer 31

Soviets

Question 32

What faded away?

Answer 32

Loyalty to the Pro Gov

Question 33

How did army discipline collapse?

Answer 33

Soldiers elected their own soviets which ignored officers’ commands

Question 34

How many strikes were there in April 1917?

Answer 34

35000

Question 35

How many strikers were involved in the Strikes of April 1917

Answer 35

1,800,000

Question 36

How many strikes were there in October 1917?

Answer 36

120,000

Question 37

How many strikers were involved in October 1917?

Answer 37

250,000

Question 38

What were the levels of rural unrest in March?

Answer 38

1.9

Question 39

What were the levels of unrest by October?

Answer 39

16.6

Question 40

How did the Pro Gov lose its upper class support

Answer 40

Order broke down and property in the countryside was attacked and seized by peasants