"The Fall of the Provisional Government was due to its own Weakness not the strengths of the Bolsheviks" . Do you agree with this statement?
After the revolution of 1917 which saw the fall of tsarist and system of autocracy a Provisional government was set up was set up, consisting of members of the tsar's forma Duma or representative assembly. The government was only in power for a few months. The quotation is interesting because how can something fall when it has so little power and was there for so little time then how could it be classed as falling. Evidence suggests that even thought the provisional government was weak and the Bolsheviks strong both equally contributed to the fall of the new provisional government
When the tsar abdicated in 1917 Russia was left virtually bankrupt. The provisional government only hope was to keep fighting in the war in some chance that the allies would offer help to rebuild Russia and invest the money to rebuild to economy. This was an unpopular decision, which left the provisional government in an unstable position. In July 1917 Kerensky became war minister. Though staying in the war contributed to making the government weak Kerensky had a strong personality and was a superb speaker and his strong determination and the provisional government organisation ment they were not as weak as made out and at least the leaders were in the country. Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders were not even in the country during 1917, though when Lenin did return in April that year it spread hope in petrograd.
After the revolution of 1917 which saw the fall of tsarist and system of autocracy a Provisional government was set up was set up, consisting of members of the tsar's forma Duma or representative assembly. The government was only in power for a few months. The quotation is interesting because how can something fall when it has so little power and was there for so little time then how could it be classed as falling. Evidence suggests that even thought the provisional government was weak and the Bolsheviks strong both equally contributed to the fall of the new provisional government
When the tsar abdicated in 1917 Russia was left virtually bankrupt. The provisional government only hope was to keep fighting in the war in some chance that the allies would offer help to rebuild Russia and invest the money to rebuild to economy. This was an unpopular decision, which left the provisional government in an unstable position. In July 1917 Kerensky became war minister. Though staying in the war contributed to making the government weak Kerensky had a strong personality and was a superb speaker and his strong determination and the provisional government organisation ment they were not as weak as made out and at least the leaders were in the country. Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders were not even in the country during 1917, though when Lenin did return in April that year it spread hope in petrograd.
