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   Why did the Provisional Government last for only 8 months?

The Provisional Government faced many problems:

∙  inflation and hunger in the towns,

∙  peasant riots in the countryside,

∙  a failing war,

∙  Bolshevik and Tsarist revolutionaries and

∙  (most of all) a rival government in the Petrograd Soviet.

After 8 months - having failed to solve ANY of these problems and having made many of them worse - it collapsed.

  

The Provisional Government

       

  

  

The Provisional Government's Problems

  

1. The Petrograd Soviet

  

2. The War and its effects

  

  

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The Provisional Government

Make notes about:

•   The structure, powers and plans of the government

•   Leading members (e.g. Lvov and Kerensky)

The Petrograd Soviet

Make notes about:

•   The structure, powers and plans of the Soviet

•   Order Number 1 and its significance

•   Why it was a threat to the Provisional Government

•   What the Provisional Government did to solve the problem of the Petrograd Soviet

The War

Make notes about:

•   Military initiatives and defeats

•   The effects of the war at home (inflation/ hunger/ dislocation)

•   What the Provisional Government did to solve the problem of the war

The Growth of the Bolsheviks

Make notes about:

•   The return of Lenin and the April theses

•   The July Days

•   The Bolshevik success during the Kornilov Rebellion

•   The Bolshevik takeover of the Petrograd Soviet

•   What the Provisional Government did to solve the problem of the Bolsheviks

The Kornilov Rebellion

Make notes about:

•   Kornilov and his resources

•   Events of the rebellion

•   What the Provisional Government did to solve the problem of the Bolsheviks

•   Effects of the Rebellion