The provisional government's weakness led to the October 1917 Revolution rather than the strength of the Bolsheviks
to what extent do you agree?
>>837374
What the FUCK is up with all the indolent students begging for help with their homework all of a sudden?
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>now that I've infiltrated successfully, do my homework
well sage'd
>>837374
That's not a functional sentence. Please try again.
>>837374
What if the strength of the Provisional Government led to the October Revolution?
p.s.: Outside of St. Petersburg all revolutionary soviets were all-party soviets.
>>837374
I see you there vce history student
>>837374
If you're asking to do your homework at least be more subtle about it.
>>837441
I did the same subject in HS, they worded the exam question the same way.
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>>837374
eh, largely agree. the provisional government's decision to continue the war was a HUGE mistake that gave a lot of fuel to the bolsheviks that was lit on fire when lenin arrived in april. imo what really killed them though was kornilov's attempted coup that the bolsheviks warded off. but i still believe the decision to continue the war doomed them from the outset, the kornilov business just sped it up.
>>837455
>kornilov's attempted coup
Wasn't that just a lack of communication?
>>837455
Had they not continue the war, wouldn't the Entente just declare war towards them, like the Soviet Union's situation after withdrawing?
http://www.markedbyteachers.com/as-and-a-level/history/a-oeit-was-the-weakness-of-the-provisional-government-that-brought-the-october-revolution-about-rather-than-the-strengths-of-the-bolsheviksa.html
Oh, wow. It's true that it's a homework topic.
>>837374
>People are mad at the tzar for starting a war, they dont want to fight. Russia has terribly low conscription rates because people dont want to be in this war.
>Riots happen, the tzar sends an army to solve them. The army instead joins the rioters and the abdication of the tzar is forced.
>A coalition of liberals and socialists offer to make peace as soon as they get in charge, so they get elected since the people want peace.
>The liberals see that the war can actually be won, as the germans are struggling in the west, and ask the populace to keep fighting for a while longer, so favorable peace terms can be settled.
>The people feel deceived, they wanted peace. The socialists lead a revolution, they succeed, and they immediately sign a very unfavorable peace with the germans, as promised.
This of course drops out many important things, but what you ask is there - the reason the revolution happened is mostly that the provisional government promised peace, then saw an opportunity to win the war and the people felt cheated.
Had they signed that peace, letting the germans have what they occupied instead of fighting to reclaim it, we could've had a very different Russia today.
>>837374
Man I remember doing VCE history last year. Are you doing China next semester?
>>837463
hard to say. either way it painted an image in the public's mind of the provisional government being so weak that only the bolsheviks could safeguard the gains of the revolution, plus get them out of the war. by the time of the october coup the provisional government was so detested that the seizure of power was pretty peaceful despite the hype surrounding the event since. very telling.
>>837465
maybe, but i think not. for one this would be a liberal-democratic russia and not a revolutionary communist russia, however much they would have hated the idea of a grassroots revolution toppling the old power structure.
two, if they did declare peace in march of 1917 this would leave germany and austria in a much stronger position with their whole eastern flank secured much earlier, more troops intact, and all this before the americans even entered the war and long before they arrived in mass numbers the following year. they'd have a much tougher fight on their hands that they would probably still win, but who knows the outcome. either way i doubt there would be much appetite for following that war up with another in russia.
>>837478
>however much they would have hated the idea of a grassroots revolution toppling the old power structure.
The Czar was hardly popular in the west.
>>837475
>China next semester?
Not OP, but I remember doing that for VCE
Most fun I had in all of highschool, it was wacky
>kungfu boxer rebellion
>Great leap backwards
>four pests
>Peasents sacrificing their families to save photos of Mao
>Mao washing his dick in women
>Maos big swim
>>837492
He was, before the war began. Only during wartime propaganda did his name get blackened, and curiously enough mostly in Russia, by Russians.
He was seen as a nice guy previously, and until the very last moment was being offered refuge in both Germany and UK, but he couldnt go, since his children were too sick to travel. In the end it sealed their fates.
>>837495
I hated it desu
>>837492
no doubt. the point was that i doubt they would have really wanted to endorse that kind of political action that got rid of him, but would have made their peace with it easily enough.
>>837511
maoist propaganda is the best though
>muh capitalist roadsters
>>837374
Nah, the strength of Socialist-Revolutionaries who weren't allowed to the parliament on top of the government not signing peace treaty with Germany(basically huge popular movement and not keeping the promises) led to october revolution. Bolsheviks started being a huge thing around spring 1918.
>>837550
>we're gonna make it to heaven in a single bound I swear guys
