While the Romanian smugglers were working hard to dig into Russia's wall, something happened in St. Petersburg that made them even more confused.
Foreign Minister Pavel Miliukov issued a note to the governments of the Allied Powers, promising to continue participating in the First World War until the end of victory. On March 2 and 3, workers and soldiers in Petrograd broke out large-scale demonstrations against the war.
During the event, demonstrators demanded that Miliukov be dismissed from his post.
This made the commander of the Petrograd Military District Lavr Kornilov very dissatisfied, so he asked the government to order the use of force to suppress the demonstrations. However, Kornilov's request was rejected by Prime Minister Lvov, who believed that
The provisional government cannot make such a move, otherwise it will be no different from the overthrown Tsarist Russian government. It will also shake the foundation of the provisional government. You must know that there is more than one government agency in St. Petersburg.
Due to the opposition of Prime Minister Lvov, the force suppression was rejected. So Foreign Minister Miliukov and Army Minister Guchkov, two cabinet members, announced their resignation. In fact, Lvov's choice was also a helpless move.
At that time, if the people's protest marches were suppressed, it would drive the people into the arms of Bushelwick. Because many soldiers and workers in St. Petersburg had been organized by this red party, if it was suppressed, it would be the collapse of the interim government.
Prelude.
After the heads of the foreign affairs and army and navy ministries resigned, the provisional government could only be convinced by joining other political parties. At that time, another government, the Petrograd Soviet, also came into the provisional government's sight.
One more thing needs to be said here: the Petrograd Soviet was not the later Soviet government, nor were all its government members members of the Busheviks. A large number of its members were Mensheviks. And the Provisional Government needed the help of these Mensheviks.
, to facilitate the unity of left-wing forces.
Of course, the Provisional Government did not give the Mensheviks much important status, and gave them two insignificant ministerial positions of Labor and Posts and Telecommunications. Its main target was still the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Speaking of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, in fact, this party was established not long ago. It is a Russian petty bourgeois party. It was initially formed in 1902 by a number of scattered old populist groups and groups. In December 1905, the first meeting of the Socialist Revolutionary Party was held.
The 1st National Congress adopted the party program and constitution and formally declared its establishment. The main figures are Chernov, Kerensky, etc.
Among them, Kerensky was the most favored by the Provisional Government because in 1905, Kerensky served as a legal consultant for the victims of the government's suppression and was imprisoned for publishing works that incited the revolution. This incident made him
After becoming famous, he also served as a defense lawyer for many opposition politicians in their trials. These work greatly benefited Kerensky in the subsequent period and made him a nationally famous political figure.
Therefore, the Provisional Government used the Minister of Army and Navy, this important seat in the war, to attract him. Of course, in addition to this, his relationship with Lenin, who had been friends since childhood, was also part of the Provisional Government's considerations. During the Provisional Government, Lenin
He made statements everywhere about the need to continue the revolution, which gave him a big headache.
So who is this famous leader of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, Mr. Kerensky?
Kerensky's full name is Alexander Fodorovich Kerensky. He was born on May 4, 1881, in the city of Simbirsk on the Volga River in Russia (now Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation).
Lenin was also born in the same place). His mother was born into a noble family, and his father was a teacher and principal of a local middle school. Lenin finished middle school under his father, so Kerensky and Lenin were good friends.
The difference from Lenin is that Kerensky received a bachelor's degree in law in 1904, and in the same year he married the daughter of a Russian general. Then in 1912 Kerensky was elected as a member of the State Duma. During the trial of the Jew Belis (the defendant
Falsely accused of killing a Christian boy during a religious ceremony), Kerensky successfully persuaded the St. Petersburg lawyers to pass a resolution condemning the incident as "deliberately spreading rumors to slander the Jewish nation." In the end, he was detained for criticizing the judicial system.
8 months.
After the outbreak of the war, Kerensky supported Russia's participation in the war and urged the government and people to unite with foreign countries. However, because the government adopted oppressive policies and was unable to effectively carry out the war, he advocated the abolition of the tsarist regime.
In this time and space changed by Edel, Kerensky quickly emerged as one of the leaders of the revolution during the January Revolution. He was elected as two vice-chairmen of the Provisional Ruling Committee of the Petrograd Workers' and Soldiers' Soviet.
This is also one of the main reasons why the Provisional Government needs to take a fancy to him, because he can coordinate the conflicts between the two governments, even if the Petrograd Soviet does not allow its members to participate in the Provisional Government.
Faced with the olive branch extended by the Provisional Government, Kerensky happily accepted the position. This made the relationship between the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Bolshevik Party very delicate. It is still unclear what the outcome of this change will be.
On March 15, 1917, the two sides negotiated and reached an agreement, and five socialist ministers entered the cabinet. They are: Alexander Kerensky, Minister of Army and Navy, and Pavel Pereverdze, Minister of Justice of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Husband, Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Minister of Agriculture Viktor Chernov, Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Minister of Labor Matvey Skobelev, Menshevik. Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Irakli Tsereteli, Menshevik.
After the Provisional Government absorbed some members of the Petrograd Soviet, the Bolsheviks, a left-wing force in the Soviet, quickly rose to prominence. The government was considering its functions and the satisfaction of the people, but it did not consider the issue of party philosophy. Since the Provisional Government had both left-wing and
Right-wing ministers often appear to be two-sided and unable to formulate decisive policies.
Therefore, the policies that led to the provisional government were always unpopular, and due to the proliferation of smuggling, the situation in various parts of Russia became even worse, and people were gathering dissatisfaction. Members of the provisional government actually knew these situations, but because of the war, Russia
The economy was in tatters, and the interim government had no good solution, so using battlefield performance to divert people's attention became one of the few options the interim government had.
Therefore, after Kerensky became Minister of Army and Navy, the Provisional Government gave him a lot of support in the army. It replaced officers who were dissatisfied with continuing to fight on the front line and suppressed the war-weariness of the soldiers. To be honest, these actions quickly restored the Russian army's already weakened state.
The morale of the army collapsed, but it did not save much. It only adjusted the collapsed army to be about to collapse, but the mood of the army was still not high. However, the bad situation at home prevented Kerensky from handling the situation of the army slowly.
So on May 1, Kerensky ordered the frontline troops to launch an attack on the German-Austrian forces. So the Russian Provisional Government's attack began in such a hasty manner.
