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What mistake did the provisional government make that would ultimately lead to their downfall?
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∙ 11y ago
they didn't have an army
Cielo Kilback
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∙ 13y agoBecause Russia will always choose stability over change, and a one leader society (Dictatorship) is was what had worked in the past, also people hated the Provisional government because they joined WW1 and most of the country was against that. The government was also made up of the middle class, which was about 4% of the population. The common people felt unrepresented, and thus sided with the Bolsheviks when they promised "Peace, Land, and Bread". Also the government stole all the Vodka and that was really the only reason for revolt. The Bolsheviks were the hard-lining (or radical) communist supporters, with the Mensheviks somewhere in the middle. The common people really didn't care who was in charge so long as they were provided with food, land, and protection. Also after the Revolt on the provisional head quarters, the leader of the provisional government gathered twenty-five troops and took back a town, but the next day they ran out of fish and sour cream and the soldiers were defeated because of lack of food and water, so the provisinal leader fled to France and then to the USA only to be killed by a gang when he tried to steal some weapons and Vodka from them, that started all the fighting in Detroit in 1969 because he stole from a gang and the gang was African American and the police mistook the Russian for a white guy and attacked the gang, here by starting the Detroit Riots. The Russian government saw the killing of a Russian person as a top priority threat and this started the Cold war.
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∙ 12y agoThe biggest mistake they made, they kept Russia in the WWI, even though everybody were starving and dieing in a large numbers. Lenin promised people peace, which was what they needed.
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