ussia proved to be rather unsuccessful and numerous losses lead to food shortages throughout the country. WWI paid a heavy toll on Russia, producing a breakdown of the standing social and political systems. Food riots were staged in Petrograd on March 8 1917, and the Petrograd Soviet of workers and Soldiers Deputies demanded that Nicholas II step down and allow the parliamentary government to assume power. Nicholas II stepped down and with him came the end of the long 300-year tsarist regime.
             The provisional government that rose in Russia was generally accepted worldwide. The power of the provisional government rested in the hands of leaders Prince Georgii Lvov, Miliukov, and Kerenskii. The government promised new civil liberties, labor restrictions, and new military policies. They also brought in new elections with the assurance that that a permanent democratic order would eventually be formed. The biggest fault of the government was the existence of two seats of power. Power rested between the new provisional government and the Petrograd soviet.
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