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FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1917 (SOVIETS AND DUAL POWER (Both sides need each…
FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1917
CONTEXT
Enthusiasm for social justice, egalitarian mood
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Popular, leaderless uprising
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Disparity between goals of groups involved - peasants - land, soldiers - peace, middle class - liberal democracy
More agitation for independence e.g. Finland, Ukraine
PROVISIONAL GOVT
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Made up of middle-class liberal initially, people involved in Duma
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Collapses summer 1917 - call for left to prop up, Mensheviks and SRs do
Aleksandr Kerensky next leader - member of SR but moderate. Member of Soviet and in previous provisional
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BOLSHEVIKS
SUMMER 1917
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Lenin supports openly, almost catastrophic - disorganised and quickly stamped out
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Patriotic mobs attack Bolsheviks, arrest warrants issued
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OCT 1917
Lenin sneaks back into country, informs other Bolshevik leaders that its time for revolution
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Power seized in name of Soviets, not Bolsheviks - Soviets walk out in protest
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SOVIETS AND DUAL POWER
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Soviets - tendency to be left wing e.g SRs, Mensheviks or Bolsheviks
Key elements of the soviets don't want to take power - Mensheviks believe nature course in road to communism according to Marx
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War is one of main areas of debate between - Soviets want to end hierarchy, introduce soldier voting
FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY
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Provisional government
Unskilled, isolated and ineffecient
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