In March, as soon as the monarchy fell, Russia established a strange system whereby power belonged to two independent structures (known as a diarchy): The Provisional Government and the Soviets.

The Provisional Government, if it had immediately sued for peace with Germany and shown more activity about the redistribution of land, could have remained in power, leading Russia into some kind ...

The Provisional Government had very limited success in ... especially during the harsh Russian winter The government could not guarantee enough grain, ammunition or weapons for troops fighting ...

Russia was ruled by Tsars who had ultimate ... The replacement by a provisional government provided ineffective governance and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution.

April 4, 1917 Lenin publishes his April Theses condemning the Provisional Government for its incapacity to call an end to the "imperialist" war that Russia found itself in and calls for further ...

February sees the Tsar overthrown and a provisional government installed in his place. Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power, promising the Russian ...

Promise Soldier Maria Bochkareva proposed all-female battalions, in part to shame men into continuing the fight Now without a sovereign, Russia’s provisional government sought to maintain peace ...