February 1917 and dual power

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who was the provisional government mostly made up of?
leading figures of various liberal parties
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why was the PG not representative?
made up of previous duma politicians
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which liberal party were the PG dominated mostly by and who was their leader?
Kadets and leader Milyukov
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who was the socialist minister in the PG?
Kerensky
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what does Zemstva mean?
town and district councils
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what was the job of the PG?
to run Russia until elections to a constituent assembly could take place
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where did the idea of the Petrograd soviet come from?
Menshevik intellectuals
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who were asked to elect delegates to attend a full meeting of the soviet?
factories
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who was the executive committee dominated by?
mensheviks and non-party socialist intellectuals
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who was the first chairman of the Petrograd soviet?
Chkheidze (leading menshevik)
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who went to the soviet to demand representation?
soldiers (wanted to protect their own interests) gained through order number 1
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what did order number 1 do? 4 things
-gave soldiers representation
- weapons to not be given to officers
- orders of PG shouldn't contradict with orders from soviet
- change of names of addressing officers
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what did order number 1 state?
soldiers would only obey the orders of the PG if the soviet agreed
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who did the real power lay with? PG OR SOVIET?
soviet
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what did the soviet control?
telegraph station, railways, soldiers in PG, factories, power supplies
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what was the policy of the soviet? what did they aim to do?
keep distance from middle class PG- act as a watchdog- make sure it did nothing to damage the interests of the working class
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why did the soviet not take power? (3 reasons)
1. leaders of the soviet said it wasn't the right time for workers to form the government (Russia had to go through a bourgeois revolution first before workers could assume power
2. wanted to avoid a civil war and counter revolution
3. leaders of the sovi
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what were the first measures taken by the PG?
1. tsarist ministers were arrested and imprisoned
2. secret police disbanded
3. first decree of PG granted an amnesty for political and religious prisoners and established freedom of the press and freedom of speech
4. PG promised it would arrange for elec
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why were the soldiers then happy?
it was agreed that soldiers in Petrograd garrison wouldn't be sent to the front
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why were the workers happy?
had secured the right to strike and to organise trade unions, an 8 hour working day and recognition of the factory committees
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Issues in march 1917?
1. War- immediate peace?
2. Land
3. National Minorities
4. Social Reform
5. Economy
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