The Dual Power In Action Flashcards
What was a flaw with the ‘order No.1’?
-said soldiers + workers obey prov gov but only when soviet agreed with prov gov decisions
-many points of disagreement in early weeks
What was a clear disagreement between the two bodies?
-prov gov tries discipline deserters + restore order in towns + countryside
-Soviet encouraged peasants + workers defy authority + assert their rights
What is another key difference between the two?
-prov gov believed change of regime should lead to all out effort to win the war
-massed expected political changes being an end to wartime deprivation
What continued with the workers despite these new efforts for change?
-worker strikes + military desertions continued
-peasants disturbances affected 34 districts March 1917 + increased to 325 July
What did Milyukov’s announcement lead to?
-announced April 1917 gov continue fighting until ‘just peace’ been won
-led to massive anti-war demonstration Petrograd forcing Milyukov + Guchkov resign
His bad had the desertions been?
-195k desertions 1914-Feb 1917
-between March + may 1917 over 365k
What added to the desertions?
-Brusilov offensive when Rus advances beaten back with heavy losses growing anti-war sentiment
-desertions reached peak + death penalty reinstated as only way controlling troops
Who were Milyukov + Guchkov replaced with?
-socialists from the Soviet
-Chernobyl became minister of agri + Kerensky minister of war
How did these changes alarm upper classes?
-alarmed them as despair that gov failed to protect their property, maintain order or win war was aggravated by gov apparent shift to left
What did Kornilov order at end of Aug?
-ordered 6 regiments of troops march on Petrograd intending crush Soviet + est. military dictatorship
What was the outcome of this coup?
-failed when Kerensky revoked support for Kornilov when panicked
-he released imprisoned B’viks + provided Soviet with weapons to hold Kornilov’s advance
Why was there little support left for the prov gov by end of summer 1917?
-food supplies chaotic in towns
-real wages fell rapidly despite new 8hr work days as prices rose - Jan 1917 prices 300% of 1914 levels but by Oct were 755%
What lost the prov gov support in countryside?
-decision continue war + gov failure redistribute land
-gov claimed such an issue had to be left until Rus had Dem elected assembly
How did the peasants react to this?
-took law into own hands + seized land anyway
What suspicions were rising?
-electoral commission est. may to arrange elections for Nov
-suspicion bourgeois gov delaying move to greater dem to preserve own power was rife
