Provisional Government and Dual Power

Question 1

Constituent Assembly

Answer 1

an elected body that has the specific function of drawing up a constitution

Question 2

1997 March 2

Answer 2

Abdication of Nicholas 2 and formation of an all liberal provisional government

Question 3

April 4 1917

Answer 3

Lenin return to Russia, release of April Theses

Question 4

18-21 April 1917

Answer 4

Milyukov Crisis

Question 5

5 May 1917

Answer 5

Reconstruction of Provisional Government as a liberal socialist coalition

Question 6

18 June 1917

Answer 6

June Offensive begins

Question 7

3-5 July 1917

Answer 7

July days Lenin flees to Finland

Question 8

8 July 1917

Answer 8

Kerensky replaces Lviv as PM

Question 9

18 July 1917

Answer 9

Kornilov appointed commander in chief by Kerensky

Question 10

27-31 August 1917

Answer 10

The Kornilov Affair

Question 11

23 September 1917

Answer 11

Trotsky becomes chairman of the Petrograd Soviet

Question 12

12 October 1917

Answer 12

Formation of Petrograd Soviet

Question 13

24-26 October 1917

Answer 13

Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd

Question 14

12-15 November 1917

Answer 14

Constituent Assembly elections

Question 15

Provisional governments early political reforms

Answer 15

• an amnesty for all political prisoners (even those detained for terrorist offences)
• abolition of capital punishment
• unrestricted freedom of speech and assembly
• equal rights for all citizens
• dissolution of tsarist political forces and their replacement militias with elected officers.
• election of the zemstva and town council on a fully democratic basis

Question 16

how many members of petrograd garrison represented soilders

Answer 16

2/3 of 3,000 members.

Question 17

what was the executive committee made up of

Answer 17

political activist, professional revolutionists

Question 18

who had full control of the capital?

Answer 18

Petrograd soviets, and support f key workers and city’s army garrison