Russian Revolution ( Grade level 10)

The second power source is the Petrograd Soviet (council) of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies . tption and the need for leadership would often cause the rise of communist and socialist governments to become starving police states with no freedom. Soviets lack the confidence to push for power. , temporary) made of liberal leaders from the Duma and one revolutionary Socialist Revolutionary, Alexander Kerensky, They seek political change to give Russia civil liberties and a constitutional government of elected officials. During the 1905 revolution, the Duma (Parliament)created had no real power. After the War the Soviet Union emerged more powerful than ever. The departure of Tsar Nicholas II to take command of troops leaves control of the government in the hands of the Tsarina, Alexandra. Initially, this was a network of local soviets which spreads across the country. whom had also came out stronger than ever after the creation of the atomic bomb. The Russian army was poorly equipped and not well led. In March of 1917, there were strikes and food riots in the capital, Petrograd (St.

The Revolution of 1917 leads to "dual power". There was widespread opposition to the Tsarist government from The Constitutional Democrats (Kadets)who were the bourgeois liberals. The vast majority of Russia's population were peasants and the political system was under the rule of the Tsar.