Provisional government (section 2)

Question 1

How long did the PG last?

Answer 1

8 months

Question 2

Who led the PG at first?

Answer 2

Prince Lvov

Question 3

What was a criticism of the pg?

Answer 3

It wasn’t an electedvbody

Question 4

Why was its authority limited?

Answer 4

Due to its unofficial partnership with the soviet

Question 5

What did it first want to act as?

Answer 5

A supervisory who made sure workers and soldiers rights were listened to

Question 6

Where were soviets set up?

Answer 6

In all major towns

Question 7

Who were the majority in the soviets?

Answer 7

Mensheviks and SRs

Question 8

What was this shared power known as?

Answer 8

Dual authority

Question 9

What did soviet order number 1 declare?

Answer 9

That in military matters the orders of the pg were only to be obeyed if it didn’t contradict soviet orders

Question 10

What did dual authority contain a broad balance of?

Answer 10

Political representation

Question 11

What did events push the pg and soviet to?

Answer 11

Pg- right
Soviets-left

Question 12

How long did they make industrial days for workers?

Answer 12

8 hours

Question 13

What did they legally recognise?

Answer 13

Trade unions

Question 14

What were the tsarist police replaced with?

Answer 14

People’s militia

Question 15

What rights were granted?

Answer 15

Civil rights and freedoms

Question 16

What did they prepare for?

Answer 16

The election of a constituent assembly

Question 17

What did the pg early achievements fail to include

Answer 17

Issues on war and land

Question 18

Who were the first of the Bolsheviks to return?

Answer 18

Stalin and Kamenev

Question 19

What did Lenin’s ‘letters from afar’ urge?

Answer 19

Not to work with pg or any other parties

Question 20

What did Lenin demand the war turn into?

Answer 20

A class war where soldiers should turn their weapons against their own officers

Question 21

What did the Bolsheviks do despite Lenin’s urging?

Answer 21

Cooperated with the pg and other parties

Question 22

How did Lenin return ?

Answer 22

In a sealed train organised by the German government

Question 23

Why did Germany give financial support to Lenin?

Answer 23

In hopes that they would seize power and pull Russia out of the war

Question 24

What were the April theses?

Answer 24

A series of statements set out by Lenin upon his return

Question 25

What did he demand the Bolsheviks to abandon

Answer 25

Cooperation with other parties

Question 26

Who did he want to transfer power to?

Answer 26

Workers

Question 27

Who did he demand the power be passed to

Answer 27

Soviets

Question 28

What did Lenin perceive the Soviets as

Answer 28

A power base on which a Bolshevik takeover could be organised

Question 29

What was Lenin’s main slogan?

Answer 29

Peace, bread and land

Question 30

What did his slogan deal with?

Answer 30

The issues that the pg couldn’t resolve

Question 31

Why did Russia feel like they had to continue in war?

Answer 31

Because they were dependent on foreign loans

Question 32

What did keeping Russia in the war mean for the pg?

Answer 32

It meant that it severely tainted their chance at survival

Question 33

What did the ministerial crisis demonstrate?

Answer 33

The division between the pg and the Soviets

Question 34

What did the Soviets call for?

Answer 34

Peace without indemnities

Question 35

What did the foreign minister call for

Answer 35

Pledged that they would keep fighting

Question 36

What was kerenskys role

Answer 36

Foreign minister after resignation of milyukov

Question 37

What did kerensky think of the war?

Answer 37

That it was a crusade and they needed to defeat Germany to save the revolution

Question 38

What kind of position was Russia in?

Answer 38

An impossible one, where their fortune could not be turned around in war

Question 39

What could the pg not claim?

Answer 39

The loyalty of the Russian people

Question 40

What would the pg be judged on?

Answer 40

How well it dealt with issues

Question 41

What gave the soviet great prominence?

Answer 41

The pg was unsure in its own authority

Question 42

Why was there excitement across Russia when the pg emerged?

Answer 42

Political groups felt that real freedom had been achieved and people felt it was a new era

Question 43

Why was there a willingness to maintain state authority?

Answer 43

So that the new liberty woukdnt slip into anarchy

Question 44

Who began the process of destruction of the pg

Answer 44

Lenin

Question 45

What did kamenev and Stalin believe the best policy for war was?

Answer 45

International negotiation

Question 46

What was accommodationism?

Answer 46

The idea of cooperating with other parties and the government

Question 47

Why did Lenin argue that the main issues couldn’t be dealt with in Russia?

Answer 47

The pg was focused only on the own interests of their class

Question 48

Why did Lenin argue that they didn’t want to supply food or reform?

Answer 48

Be sued it guaranteed their property rights and privilege

Question 49

Why did foreign bankers visit Russia after the tsars abdication?

Answer 49

To ensure that the new regime would continue the war

Question 50

What caused loss of support for the government?

Answer 50

The army weren’t successful

Question 51

What did Kerensky appeal for in his speeches on the front line?

Answer 51

For the soldiers to lay down their lives for Russia

Question 52

What happened with the offensive on the south-western line?

Answer 52

They failed badly with Austria inflicting heavy losses

Question 53

What did general kornilov call for?

Answer 53

The pg to halt offences and focus on the political subversives at home

Question 54

When did Kerensky become prime minister

Answer 54

8 July