Meaning And Significance Of The Provisional Government
Please identify the meaning and significance of the following terms:
Provisional government: A provisional government is a government that is put in place temporarily. After the czar abdicated, a provisional government was put in place. This new government was comprised of middle-class Duma representatives (the Duma was the legislature that czar Nicholas put in place). This provisional government called for an election later in the year to determine a constituent assembly. This constituent assembly would establish the permanent government.
Petrograd Soviet: The Petrograd Soviets were rivals of the provisional government. The Petrograd Soviet was made up of workers and peasants that belonged to different socialist groups -- the majority were Mensheviks or Social Revolutionaries, and some belonged to the more radical group called the Bolsheviks. The Petrograd Soviet became the model for other soviets in Russia. The soviets called for immediate peace, the transfer of land to peasants, and that factories were controlled by the workers. The provisional government did not adhere to these three requests and as a result it lost much of its popularity.
Peace, Land, and Bread: This was the Lenin’s (the leader of the radical group called the Bolsheviks) slogan. This slogan promised that Russia would be withdrawn from the war, peasants …show more content…
would be given land, and everyone would have enough to eat. Using this slogan, the Bolsheviks grew popular among Russian peasants and gained control of the Petrograd Soviet. The Bolsheviks then staged a coup and took control from the provisional government. After the Bolsheviks seized power, they began to claim that they were communists.
Reds and Whites: During the beginning of 1918, a civil war began between the communists and their political opponents (royalists, liberal democrats, and moderate socialists).
The communists became known as the reds because of the red flag of revolution. Their opponents later became known as whites. The whites wanted to quickly defeat the reds and bring Russia back into war. For this reason, they received help from the allied powers. This created nationalist support of the reds. This war lasted frot three bloody years; whites killed any suspected communists when they captured a village, and the reds did the same for
counter-revolutionaries.
Nationalization: The Bolsheviks introduced and economic policy called war communism. War communism took direct control of industry and forced peasants to send food to the starving cities. War communism used the policy of nationalization that brought under state control of all major industries. This policy required that everybody 16 to 50 years old must work. This system created a lot of power, but it was very inefficient.
New Economic Policy: In an attempt to bring order to Russia, Lenin created a plan called the New Economic Policy. The policy stated that major industries were still controlled by the government, but some private businesses were allowed to operate. It allowed small manufacturers and farmers to make and sell goods for a profit. This was a surprising departure from the Marxist theory.
Dictatorship of the proletariat: Dictatorship of the proletariat was when the proletariat (working class) had control of political power. This was part of the society that Marx had envisioned. In Russia, however, the leadership of the Communist party controlled the workers.
Provisional government: A provisional government is a government that is put in place temporarily. After the czar abdicated, a provisional government was put in place. This new government was comprised of middle-class Duma representatives (the Duma was the legislature that czar Nicholas put in place). This provisional government called for an election later in the year to determine a constituent assembly. This constituent assembly would establish the permanent government.
Petrograd Soviet: The Petrograd Soviets were rivals of the provisional government. The Petrograd Soviet was made up of workers and peasants that belonged to different socialist groups -- the majority were Mensheviks or Social Revolutionaries, and some belonged to the more radical group called the Bolsheviks. The Petrograd Soviet became the model for other soviets in Russia. The soviets called for immediate peace, the transfer of land to peasants, and that factories were controlled by the workers. The provisional government did not adhere to these three requests and as a result it lost much of its popularity.
Peace, Land, and Bread: This was the Lenin’s (the leader of the radical group called the Bolsheviks) slogan. This slogan promised that Russia would be withdrawn from the war, peasants …show more content…
would be given land, and everyone would have enough to eat. Using this slogan, the Bolsheviks grew popular among Russian peasants and gained control of the Petrograd Soviet. The Bolsheviks then staged a coup and took control from the provisional government. After the Bolsheviks seized power, they began to claim that they were communists.
Reds and Whites: During the beginning of 1918, a civil war began between the communists and their political opponents (royalists, liberal democrats, and moderate socialists).
The communists became known as the reds because of the red flag of revolution. Their opponents later became known as whites. The whites wanted to quickly defeat the reds and bring Russia back into war. For this reason, they received help from the allied powers. This created nationalist support of the reds. This war lasted frot three bloody years; whites killed any suspected communists when they captured a village, and the reds did the same for
counter-revolutionaries.
Nationalization: The Bolsheviks introduced and economic policy called war communism. War communism took direct control of industry and forced peasants to send food to the starving cities. War communism used the policy of nationalization that brought under state control of all major industries. This policy required that everybody 16 to 50 years old must work. This system created a lot of power, but it was very inefficient.
New Economic Policy: In an attempt to bring order to Russia, Lenin created a plan called the New Economic Policy. The policy stated that major industries were still controlled by the government, but some private businesses were allowed to operate. It allowed small manufacturers and farmers to make and sell goods for a profit. This was a surprising departure from the Marxist theory.
Dictatorship of the proletariat: Dictatorship of the proletariat was when the proletariat (working class) had control of political power. This was part of the society that Marx had envisioned. In Russia, however, the leadership of the Communist party controlled the workers.