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FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1917 (SOVIETS AND DUAL POWER (Both sides need each…

- - - - Allow radicals like Lenin back into the country
      - Can't quash Bolsheviks and indepdence
    - - Big decisions held off until elections held - more democratic
        
        Places that want independence impatient - Bolsheviks promising
        
        Being to mobilise
        
        Not always though e.g. Ukrainian independence - Moss
        
        Never had elections, mid-war and revolution
        
        Liberals unlikely to win - obvious from early on
        
        Land reform doesn't happen - peasants begin seizing land
        
        Do not withdraw from war - immediately put under pressure by allies to stay
        
        Unpopular
  - - - Aleksandr Kerensky next leader - member of SR but moderate. Member of Soviet and in previous provisional
      - Left more active in govt except Bolsheviks
        
        Reputation declines along with provisional govts
        
        Suny - association of them meant collaboration with upper classes, increasingly perceived as enemies of the revolution, or all new-Soviet govt
- - - - Mensheviks and SRs want stability - try to distance selves
    - - Forced to flee country
      - Lenin described as German spy as they gave him safe passage back to Russia
      - Patriotic mobs attack Bolsheviks, arrest warrants issued
    - - General Lavr Kornilov right wing monarchist conservatist decides to stage coup
        
        Gathers soldiers from front and heads toward Petrograd
        
        Provisional govt shits self, releases and arms far left groups
        
        Coup falls apart almost instantly - but damage done, groups out and govt looks weak
  - - - Been out of country for 10 years - not huge but big authority in own party
      - Writes April thesis on train back
        
        No co-operation with govt, a sham
        
        Demands end to war - imperialistic and capitalist
        
        Fraternisation - convince enemy soliders
      - Misreads mood? Optimistic, egalitarian - trying to tear down
      - Time for revolution in Russia and Europe
      - Lenin revitalises Bolsheviks - Moss
  - - - Other leaders dubious but he ultimately pushes through his demands
    - - fairly low-key
        
        Suny - take power with little resistance
      - Seize bridges - series of islands
      - Take troops to winter palace and arrest provisional govt
        
        Farce - can't find them, leader escapes, can't get artillery
    - - Lasts for 3-4, atrocities and foreign intervention
      - More opposition than to Feb revolution - rights not happy
    - - Many leaders not Russian, exiled in west, western ideology
      - Moss - ignores indigenous support