Provisional government interpretation stats Flashcards

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PG formed. 24 commissars of duma appointed

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March 2nd 1917

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Decree against death penalty

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March 12th 1917

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1st Refroms act - Abolish Okrhana

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March 3rd 1917-

they abolished the Okhrana

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Leader of the provisional government

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Prince lvov

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Inflation

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Inflation 400% and 8 hour bread queues
Cost of meat 500%
The average worker’s wage was around 50 rubles per month in 1917 - No increase

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rouble value

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10 times lower in 1917 than before the war.

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7
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In poverty

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80

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War costs

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22 billion rubles

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9
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Petrograd soviet

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3000 members

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PG

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Octoberists and Kadets who are more conservative
Mostly members of 1912 Duma

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April theses - will promise ‘all power to soviets’ and ‘peace, land, bread’

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April 7th 1917

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PS

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=Mensheviks, social revolutionaries (want class conscience to being change/revolution) and Bolsheviks (believe need to rule on behalf of proletariat)

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Foreign minister Milyukov resigns. 6 Menshevik and SR delegates join the Provisional Government, while Alexander Kerensky replaces Guchkov as war minister.

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April 24th 1917

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April crisis Demonstrations against war

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20-21 April 1917

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15
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Dual auhtoirty

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24 duma members, 6 soicalist ministers on PG

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16
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Kerensky offensive

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18 June 1917 - 6 July 1917

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17
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Keresnky losses

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60000 killed, 42,726 deserters and 82000 captured

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July Days

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3rd-6th July 1917

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July days numbers

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100000 plus riot. 700 killed. 1000 Bolsheviks arrested

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Kronsdant mutiny

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may 16th 1917. 18 soilders killed.

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Kornilov revolt

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10th - 13th September 1917

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Kornilov affair

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2000 men attempt to storm petrograd

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strikes escalate, 700,000 railway workers on strike; leading Bolsheviks released from prison.

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September 1st-4th

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Kornilov arrested

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15th septmeber 1917

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Bolsheviks seize power in Petrograd
October 24th 1917
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take winter palace
October 26th 1917
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Equal rights act
April 20, 1917 granting equal rights for all citizens, including the abolition of discriminatory policies against ethnic minorities and the Jewish population.
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Decree on Freedom of the Press
April 18, 1917 The Provisional Government enacted a decree that legalized freedom of the press, allowing a wider range of political opinions to be expressed in the media.
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September Strike
September 25–30, 1917 The strike in Petrograd began and was led by the Petrograd Soviet and other left-wing groups, including the Bolsheviks By end September - 700000 strikes
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1st general strike
April 4, 1917, a general strike occurred in Petrograd with an estimated 250,000 workers participating.
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Putilov works strike
February 23–27, 1917 By February 25, the strike spread, with about 240,000 workers participating in the protests, calling for better living conditions and an end to the war.
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Moscow general strike
August 20 1917 About 500,000 workers were involved in this general strike.
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Lenin gains majority in PS
October 23rd 1917 Win by 10-2 vote Bolshevik dominating body
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Political prisoners released
March 5, 1917: 100000 prisoners released from St Peter and St Paul fortress
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Land decree / Milyukov decree
July 8, 1917 The decree aimed to establish legal guidelines for land redistribution
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Aid from west in war
By 1917, France had loaned Russia approximately 6 billion francs, Britain had provided around 500 million pounds (roughly equivalent to $2 billion USD at the time). By 1917, Russia had received approximately 600,000 tons of food from the Allies
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War debt
13 billion rubles (about $6.5 billion USD at the time). 30% of GDP on military expenses during the war.
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Support to stay in the war
The Kadets, or Constitutional Democratic Party, Social revolutionaries and Mensheviks (Moderate Socialists) octoberisits - want a consutional monarchy -- hope for establishment of socialism and democracy post war
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National revolutions
Establishment of the Ukrainian Central Rada March 17th 1917 -aim to form independent state Declaration of Autonomy by the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) (June 1917) June 15th -23rd 1917 Finland declared its independence from Russia on December 6, 1917. The Polish National Committee (KNP) demanded independence November 11, 1918 - Józef Piłsudski took control of the newly re-established Polish state,
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Peasant revolt
350000 dessert April 1917, reports indicated that about 1,300 peasant uprisings
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Religious revoltions
Jewish Labour Bund (a socialist, Marxist-oriented movement that sought to protect Jewish workers' rights)
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Ukrainan rada
March 17th 1917
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Baltics declare autonomy
June 15th-23rd 1917
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Finland declare independence
Dec 6th 1917
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Poland clain indepdnence
November 11, 1918 -
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