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Was it the Failures of the Provisional Government or the skills of Lenin that enabled the Bolsheviks to take control in 1917?
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Was it the Failures of the Provisional Government or the skills of Lenin that enabled the Bolsheviks to take control in 1917? In 1917 the Russian Tsar Nicolas II abdicated leaving the Provisional Government in charge. However the provisional government were no better than the Tsar and Russia's economy continued to decline. Later that year in October 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power from the Provisional Government led by Kerensky. Some historians see the revolution as a united working class led by Lenin but others see this as inevitable due to the failings of the Provisional Government. Source H says it was the failing of the Provisional Government and it appears to give a clear account mentioning lots of well known problems. The author talks about there being "robberies and housebreakings" and food becoming scarcer "week by week" He also talks about there being only "milk for half the babies in the...
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