Chapter 263: The Provisional Government's Attack

While Romanian smugglers were toiling to dig into the corners of the Russian wall, something happened in St. Petersburg that made it even more chaotic.

Foreign Minister Pavel Miliukov sent a note to the governments of the Entente countries, promising to continue to participate in the First World War until the victorious end. On March 2 and 3 in Petrograd, mass demonstrations against the war broke out among workers and soldiers in Petrograd, and demonstrators demanded the removal of Milyukov from his post.

This greatly displeased the commander of the Petrograd Military District, Ravl Kornilov, who asked the government for an order to suppress the demonstrations by force. But Kornilov's request was rejected by Prime Minister Ivov, who believed that the Provisional Government could not make such a move, otherwise it would be no different from the overthrown Tsarist government. And will shake the foundations of the Provisional Government, knowing that in St. Petersburg there is more than one government agency.

Due to the opposition of Prime Minister Li Wov, the repression by force was vetoed. So Foreign Minister Milyukov and Army Minister Guchkov, two cabinet members, announced their resignations. In fact, Leewolf's choice was also a helpless move, and at that time, if the protests were suppressed, the people would be driven into the arms of the Bushwalks. Because many soldiers and workers in St. Petersburg had already been organized by this red party, a repression would be a prelude to the collapse of the Provisional Government.

After the resignation of the heads of foreign affairs and the army and navy, the Provisional Government could only be convinced by joining other political parties. And the Petrograd Soviet, another government at that time, also came into the eyes of the Provisional Government.

It is necessary to add here that the Petrograd Soviet was not a later Soviet government, and its members were not all members of the Bushviks, but quite a few of them were Mensheviks. And the Provisional Government needed the help of these Mensheviks to unite the left.

Of course, the Provisional Government did not give much importance to the Menshevik Party, but gave the two insignificant ministerial positions of Labor and Posts and Telecommunications, the main target of which was the Socialist-Revolutionary.

Speaking of the Social Revolutionary, in fact, this party has not been formed for a long time. It was a Russian petty-bourgeois party, formed in 1902 by a preliminary coalition of a number of scattered old Narodnik groups and groups. In December 1905, the First National Congress of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party was convened, and the Party program and party constitution were adopted, and the founding was officially proclaimed. The main characters are Chernov, Kerensky, etc.

Kerensky was most of the favourite of the Provisional Government, as in 1905 he worked as a legal adviser to the victims of the government's repression and was imprisoned for publishing works that incited revolution. This made him famous, and he also worked as a defence lawyer for many opposition politicians in litigation trials. These efforts benefited Kerensky in the years that followed, making him a nationally known political figure.

So the Provisional Government took out the Minister of the Army and the Navy, which was such an important seat in the war, to woo him. Of course, in addition to this, his relationship with Lenin, which had been friends since childhood, was also part of the consideration of the Provisional Government. During the Provisional Government, Lenin was a big headache for Lenin to make statements about the need to continue the revolution.

So where is this famous head of the Socialist-Revolutionary, Mr. Kerensky?

Kerensky's full name is Alexander Vdolovich Kerensky. He was born on May 4, 1881 in Simbirsk, on the Volga River in Russia (present-day Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation, the same place where Lenin was born). His mother came from an aristocratic background, and his father was a teacher and principal of a local secondary school. Lenin finished secondary school under his father, so Kerensky and Lenin were good friends.

Unlike Lenin, Kerensky received a bachelor's degree in law in 1904, the same year he married the daughter of a Russian general. Then in 1912 Kerensky was elected a member of the State Duma. During the trial of the Jew Belis, who was falsely accused of killing a Christian boy during a ritual of worship, Kerensky succeeded in convincing the St. Petersburg Lawyers to pass a resolution condemning the incident as "a deliberate attempt to slander the Jewish people." In the end, he was detained for eight months on charges of criticizing the judicial system.

After the outbreak of the war, Kerensky supported Russia's entry into the war and urged the government and people to unite with the outside world. However, because the government was oppressive and unable to wage war effectively, he advocated the abolition of the tsarist regime.

In this time and space that was transformed by Eder, Kerensky also rose to prominence as one of the leaders of the revolution during the January Revolution, and he was elected as two deputy chairmen of the Provisional Ruling Council of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers. This was one of the main reasons why the Provisional Government needed to be in favor of it, because it was able to reconcile the contradictions between the two governments, even if the Petrograd Soviet did not allow its members to participate in the Provisional Government.

In the face of the olive branch extended by the provisional government, Kerensky still happily accepted this post. This made the relationship between the Social Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Party very delicate, and it is not yet known how this change will turn out.

On March 15, 1917, the two sides negotiated an agreement, and five socialist ministers were appointed to the cabinet. They don't divide into yes; Minister of the Army and Navy Alexander Kerensky, Socialist-Revolutionary. Minister of Justice Pavel Perevzev, Socialist-Revolutionary. Minister of Agriculture Viktor Chernov, Socialist-Revolutionary. Minister of Labor Matvey Skobelev, Mensheviks. Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Irakli Tserteli, Menshevik.

After the Provisional Government absorbed some members of the Petrograd Soviet, the Bolsheviks, the leftist forces in the Soviets, quickly rose to the fore. The government, on the other hand, is considering the functions and the satisfaction of the people, but it is not taking into account the ideology of the political parties. Due to the presence of both left and right ministers in the Provisional Government, it was often two-faced and unable to formulate decisive policies.

As a result, the policies that led to the Provisional Government were always unpopular, and the situation in various parts of Russia was made worse by the spread of smuggling, and discontent was gathering among the population. The members of the Provisional Government actually knew all these situations, but because the Russian economy had been shattered during the war, and the Provisional Government had no good way, it became one of the few options for the Provisional Government to divert the attention of the people by using battlefield performances.

Therefore, after Kerensky became Minister of the Army and Navy, the Provisional Government gave him a lot of support in the army. Replace the officers on the front who are dissatisfied with the continuation of the war and suppress the war weariness of the soldiers. To be honest, these moves quickly restored the morale of the Russian army, which had collapsed, but it did not save much, only adjusting the collapsed army to collapse, but the mood of the army was still not high, but the bad situation at home made Kerensky unable to deal with the situation of the army in a slow manner.

So on May 1, Kerensky gave the order to the front-line army to launch an attack on the German-Austrian forces. So the attack of the Russian Provisional Government began in such a hurry.