Workers and soldiers sent representatives to form a soviet and look after their interests.
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The Provisional Government
A temporary government. They run the country until they could hold elections for a new government and decided how to run the country in the future.
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Dual Power
The PG was the first government but could only carry out decisions if the PS approved.
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Which two issues did the PG face?
War and land
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Issue 1- War
- The PG decided to continue the war (with the approval of the PS)
- Nobody wanted to be defeated by the Germans and they knew they would be made to pay a heavy price if they lost
- the PG wanted to keep their allies on side for the future
- the war went
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Issue 2- Land
- The peasants they could own and with the Tsar gone
- The PG would not give it to them
- They felt it was so important that they should leave it to a properly elected government
- Worried that a free-for-all would lead to a disintegration of the army (t
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What first measures were taken by the new government?
-Political prisoners were freed
- Freedom of the press
-Freedom of speech
- The right to strike
- An end to social discrimination
- An end to the death penalty
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When did Lenin return to Petrograd from Switzerland and publish the April Theses?
Returned on 16th April 1917 and published the April Theses on the 17th April 1917
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Card 2
Front
The Provisional Government
Back
A temporary government. They run the country until they could hold elections for a new government and decided how to run the country in the future.
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