Why is the Provisional Government often viewed as reluctant to carry out reforms? (Depth Study 2)
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- Why is the Provisional Government seen as reluctant to carry out reforms?
- Failure to reform
- Politics
- long delay to elections
- weak attempt to set up a coalition with the Soviet
- stayed with dual authority which undermined to Gov.
- Land
- Peasants had seized private land and the countryside was in chaos
- tried to establish land committees but they wouldn't cooperate
- Gov felt they couldn't redistribute the land as they were only temporary
- Food
- Collapse of the internal market and chaos in the countryside meant there was little grain reaching the cities
- Gov didn't want to force peasants with violence, and soldiers would have refused anyway
- Created a monopoly and food committee for grain
- Food committee didn't listen - the centre lost control
- Worker
- Worker committees were clamped down on - not very liberal
- lack of food in urban areas
- No improvements = very revolutionary
- Politics
- Overall
- Did succeed in creating a General Assembly, but the success of the Bolsheviks mean this was an empty victory
- Some historians have suggested the the Gov. would be stronger if they did reforms
- other historians say it was unfair to expect reforms when facing these social and economic challenges
- Failure to reform
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