Russian Provisional Government

government before Soviet Takeover, July 1917-October 1917

The Russian Provisional Government (Russian: Временное правительство России, tr. Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of Russia created after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire on 2 March [15 March, New Style] 1917.[1][2] The purpose of the provisional government was the creation of elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly and its convention.

Russian Provisional Government

9th Cabinet of Russia
Date formed2 March [15 March, N.S.] 1917
Date dissolvedOctober [November, N.S] 1917
People and organisations
Head of stateAlexis II (unproclaimed)

Michael II (conditionally)

Georgy Lvov (de facto)
Head of governmentGeorgy Lvov
Member partiesProgressive Bloc
Socialist-Revolutionaries
Mensheviks
Popular Socialists
Status in legislatureCoalition
Opposition cabinetExecutive Committee
of Petrograd Soviet
Opposition partiesBolsheviks
Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
Opposition leaderNikolay Chkheidze
History
Incoming formationGolitsyn
Outgoing formationKerensky I
PredecessorNikolay Golitsyn
SuccessorAlexander Kerensky

The government lasted only eight months and caused a "disorganized army".[3]

References change

  1. Manifest of abdication (in Russian)
  2. "Announcement of the First Provisional Government, 13 March 1917". FirstWorldWar.com. 2002-12-29. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  3. Harold Whitmore Williams (1919) The Spirit of the Russian Revolution, p. 14, 15. Russian Liberation Committee, no. 9, 173 Fleet Street. London