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- The 'pre-parliament'
- 1.The same time Lenin pressed policy on his party, Kerensky tried to make his government less exposed by announcing plans for the creation of pre parliament.
- 2.Lenin urges a rising
- 1.Encouraged by the Bolsheviks' success in undermining the pre-parliament, Lenin began urging his party to prepare to overthrown the PG.
- 2. However, despite the intense conviction which Lenin put his arguments to his colleagues, there were Bolsheviks on the Central Committee who doubted the wisdom of striking against the PG at this point.
- 3. In order to enforce his will, Lenin slipped back into Petrograd on 7th October. His personal presence stiffened Bolshevik resolve, but did not produce unity
- Kerensky makes the first move not Lenin
- Rumours of a Bolshevik coup about to happen, had been circulating Petrograd for weeks, it was not until an article....
- Written by two members of the Bolshevik Central Committee that appeared in a journal on 10 October that the authorities felt they has some proof
- The writers of the article- Grigor Zionviev and Lev Kamanev, argued it would be a mistake to attempt to overthrow the government in the current situation.
- Kerensky interpreted it as indicating a date had already been set. Rather, to be caught off guard, he ordered a pre-emptive (prevent an attack by disabling the enemy), attack on the Bolsheviks
- On 23 October- Bolshevik newspapers, Pravda and Izvestiya, closed down by government troops and an attempted round-up of the leading Bolsheviks began
- The Bolsheviks had no other option, he ordered the planned insurrection to begin
- Kerensky makes the first move not Lenin
- 4.During the next 2 weeks he spent many hours trying to convince the waverers at the Central Committee. On the 10th of October they decided on an armed insurrection but did not decide on a date.
- 2.Lenin urges a rising
- 2.This would be a body with the authority to advise the government. drawn from a variety of parties in order to have a range of political opinion. It was intended to fill the time before the Constituent Assembly came into being.
- 3.Lenin condemned the pre-parliament as a manoeuvre not to broaden the government's base but to strengthen it's grip on power
- Acting on his orders, Bolshevik members of the soviet who were entitled to attend the pre-parliament mocked it loudly and then walked out.
- 1.The same time Lenin pressed policy on his party, Kerensky tried to make his government less exposed by announcing plans for the creation of pre parliament.
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