Russia in Revolution, 1905-1917
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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.”