Russia in Revolution, 1905-1917

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Russia in Revolution, 1905-1917

a)

Source 2 reveals that the attitudes of the workers and soldiers in the soviets towards the provisional government in April 1917 were positive and they were willing to work with them. However they were monitoring the provisional government to make sure that they did as the soviet wanted. “The all Russian conference of the soviets of workers and soldiers deputies recognizes that this program includes the basic political demands of Russian democracy” the statement later says “ and that so far the provisional government has, on the whole and in general, been fulfilling the obligations which it assumed.”

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b)

In April 1917 Lenin returned to Russia, after 1896, when he was arrested and sentenced to three years internal exile in Siberia. On his release in 1900 Lenin decided to leave Russia, and moved to Geneva in Switzerland. When Lenin returned to Russia on 3rd April, 1917, he announced what became known as the April Theses. Lenin attacked Bolsheviks for supporting the Provisional Government. Instead, he argued, revolutionaries should be telling the people of Russia that they should take control of the country. In his speech, Lenin urged the peasants to take the land from the rich landlords ...

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