weaknesses and failures of PG
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- Created on: 11-04-17 16:56
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- Weaknesses and failures PG
- Promised to bring reforms into Russia
- There would be elections taken place at the Constituent Assembly
- Provisional Governments problems
- 1) not a truly elected body=no respect from people of Russia
- 2) Defeats in the war
- 3) Soldiers were deserting
- 4) Peasants looting property of landlors
- 5) Soldiers and workers were setting up soviets in town and cities
- 6) People wanted an end to food shortages
- serious issues
- Provisional Governments problems
- 1) not a truly elected body=no respect from people of Russia
- 2) Defeats in the war
- 3) Soldiers were deserting
- 4) Peasants looting property of landlors
- 5) Soldiers and workers were setting up soviets in town and cities
- 6) People wanted an end to food shortages
- formation of Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers Deputies
- 3000 elected members and contained many revolutionaries including Socialist revolutionaries and Mensheviks
- 2 bodies were running Russia=dual authority
- they worked together but then soviets joint with Bolsheviks as PG decided to continue the war
- Provisional Governments problems
- Decision to stay in war was fatal as it was so unpopular
- Germany sent exiled revolutionaries back to Russia
- Lenin was sent back in
- LEader of Bolsheviks and he called for the overthrow of the PG
- Lenin was sent back in
- Promised to bring reforms into Russia
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