Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What were the Problems with the Provisional Govt.?
- WAR
- Milyukov, minister of war,
- to make territorial gains at
the end of April 1917.
- Socialists in the PS angry as
they wanted a defensive war -
Milyukov forced to resign
- PG's attitude towards war was negative + so allowed Bolshevism to
flourish
- SUMMER OFFENSIVE
- 16/06/1917 for 3 days
- major military offensive against Germans
- new MofWar, Kerensky, ran propaganda
campaign + gave speeches to gain
support
- K was pop. and this gained support
- soilders h/ever desserted in high #
- resulted in many soilders killed and lots of land
lost to Germany
- PG survived immediate effects but moderate socialists lost
credibility to soilders + workers in the long term
- Effects at
home led to
armed
uprising (July
Days)
- JULY DAYS
- 3/07 - 20000
soldiers from
Kronstadt
arrived in the
Petrograd
- marched on Tauride palace +
demanded the soviets take power
- Chernov (SR leader) went to calm them but was captured + later saved by Trotsky
- Unsuccessful;
- lack of leadership
- loyal soviet troops arrived +
crowds dispersed
- several Bolsh leaders arrested
- Sukhanov; described
armed groups as being led
by 'Bolsh lieutenants' but
evid. suggests leaders
were far from committed
- LAND
- unrest in countryside as P still unhappy as still didnt have land
- due to collapse govt. there was no one to stop p
taking land
- Summer 17; Land seizures escalated -237 cases in July
- Liberals in PG unwilling to hand over land;
concerns such as compensation for
landowners
- P didnt find this reasonable + cont to take
land/livestock
- NATIONAL MINORITIES
- Problems between libs + socialists over demands of NM
- wanted ind. from the empire
- Problem when Ukraine wanted self-govt as they had most valuable farmland in empire
- POOR ECONOMIC SITUATION
- shortages of fuel =factories shutting down = unemployment
- 10000 jobs lost after 568 factories shut
between feb-july
- wages increased (blacksmith £1.25 in july
'14 to £8.50 in August '17) but costs of
basics rose
- Food shortages
- govt increased what it paid for grain by 100% but didnt convince p to bring grain to cities
- grain prices doubled in petrograd