Recap L14: The Dual Authority

There are incorrect options listed below, so think carefully!
The ​ (a)   was mostly made up of ​ (b)   bourgeoisie, while the ​ Petrograd ​ (c)   was dominated by the ​ (d)   and SRs.

• Provisional Government
• liberal
• Soviet
• Mensheviks
• conservative
• Bolsheviks

Which two occurred on 1 March 1917?

• Proclamation of the Provisional Government

• Soviet Order No. 1

• Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II

• Abdication of Mikhail (Nicholas' brother)

Select the liberal reforms made by the Provisional Government in their Proclamation.

• Freedom of speech, conscience, assembly, the press and the strikes

• Universal suffrage for the election of the Constituent Assembly

• Abolition of class, religious and national restrictions

• Establishment of provinicial soviets throughout Russia

​ (a)   : "The ​ (b)   had power without ​ (c)   ; the ​ (d)   had authority without ​ (e)   ."

• Kerensky
• Soviets
• authority
• Provisional Government
• power
• Lenin
• influence

Which three issues did the Provisional Government leave for the Constituent Assembly to resolve?

• Peace; Russia's involvement in WWI

• Land; peasant land reform

• Bread; providing food for the near starving population

• Political prisoners; releasing the prisoners of the tsarist government

The PG pursued a policy of 'revolutionary defencism' in relation to WWI when they came to power. What was this policy?

• Russia would actively try and gain more land and defeat its WWI enemies

• Russia would actively defend nations in WWI that they believed would also go through revolution

• Russia would only fight in WWI to defend its revolution, not to gain territory

• Russia would decisively end the war to become a stronger global superpower