Provisional Government, March to Oct 1917 and Bolshevik Takeover

Question 1

Who led PG?

Answer 1

Prince Lvov

Question 2

Who was the only member of both the PG and Petrograd Soviet?

Answer 2

Kerensky

Question 3

Why was the PG meant to be temporary?

Answer 3

A Constituent Assembly would be elected

Question 4

What did the dual power agree on?

Answer 4

Allowed freedom of religion and press
Abolished death penalty at the front
Police force replaced by peoples militia
Zemstva more power

Question 5

What did the Soviets Order Number 1 state?

Answer 5

Soldiers and workers should obey PG unless Soviet disagreed.

Question 6

How many districts affected by peasant disturbances by July?

Answer 6

325

Question 7

Who resigned after massive anti war protests?

Answer 7

Milyukov and Guchkov

Question 8

Who replaced Prince Lvov as chairman of PG?

Answer 8

Kerensky

Question 9

What street riots occurred?

Answer 9

July Days

Question 10

What did Kornilov try and establish in Petrograd?
Why did he fail?
When was this?

Answer 10

A military dictatorship
Kerensky provided the Soviet with weapons
End of August 1917

Question 11

By October 1917, prices were ….. of 1914 levels

Answer 11

755%

Question 12

When was the Kerensky Offensive?
How far was the retreat?
What did it lead to?

Answer 12

June 1917
150 miles
Reinstalled death penalty

Question 13

What did the July Days do to the Bolsheviks?

Answer 13

It discredited them, leaders were arrested and Lenin fled to Finland.

Question 14

When did Lenin return to Petrograd again?

Answer 14

October 7th

Question 15

What did the Military Revolutionary Committee consist of?

Answer 15

200,000 Red Guards
60,000 sailors
150,000 Petrograd soldiers

Question 16

Lenin’s April thesis can be summed up into two slogans, what are they?

Answer 16

Peace, land and bread
All power to the Soviets

Question 17

Which naval base supported the July Days protest?

Answer 17

Krondstadt

Question 18

When was the October Revolution?

Answer 18

25-26th October 1917

Question 19

Who was left to defend the Winter Palace?

Answer 19

Women’s unit and cadets

Question 20

Why was timing important for the October Revolution?

Answer 20

The Congress of Soviets met in November
Constituent Assembly elected in December and could challenge Soviet’s authority

Question 21

When was the Second Congress of Soviets?

Answer 21

26th October 1917

Question 22

Who walked out of the Second Congress of Soviets and what did Trotsky say?

Answer 22

Mensheviks and right SRs
‘get out of here to where you belong- in the dustbin of history’

Question 23

Who was chairman of sovnarkom?

Answer 23

Lenin

Question 24

Who was commissar for foreign affairs?

Answer 24

Trotsky

Question 25

Who was commissar for nationalities?

Answer 25

Stalin

Question 26

Who was commissar for social welfare?
What was special?

Answer 26

Alexandra Kollontai
First female minister in Russia

Question 27

On Peace and Land promised?
Effect on control?

Answer 27

End war and abolished private ownership of land
Reduced peasant support for SRs

Question 28

What three decrees were issued in November 1917?

Answer 28

Nationality (Finland independent in Dec, rada in Ukraine)
New elected people’s courts
Outlawed sex discrimination and women right to own property, also no titles

Question 29

What three decrees issued in December?

Answer 29

Military removing class ranks
Nationalised church, no church control over marriage and divorce
Nationalised banks so no flow of private capital

Question 30

What was established in December 1917 to help maintain Bolshevik control?

Answer 30

Cheka (secret police)

Question 31

Why did Lenin dissolve the Constituent Assembly after the first meeting on 5th January 1918?

Answer 31

Believed the Bolsheviks understood the needs of the proletariat better than the proletariat understood them themselves
Also the Bolsheviks did not have a majority, the SRs did!