mar 27, 1917 - The weeks after the revolution

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"absolute freedom was experienced"
-destroy symbols of the tsarist rule
----rename public places that refered to the tsarist rule
-----rename naval ships
-----now the people of russia called themselves comrades/citizens
-----change ur name if its related to tsars


-----------Beggining in march the political future of russia decided

Provisional Government and the Soveit of Workers and Soldiers Deputies

Provisional Government
-duma appointed themselves as rulers
-rule russia until elections could be held
-Prince Lyvov -liberal -kadet?
-all but bolsheviks joined provisional gov
-many of the provisional gov members were liberals
-did not want pass any laws relating to land until the gov was more permanent

Soveit
-made by the workers and soldiers
-voted in elections for representative
-mostly socialist revolutionaries and menshivik
-some Bolshevik?
- more powerful for two reasons
1.supported by the majority but provisional is just political leaders
2. strong influence with soldiers because they stopped the mutiny


This set up required collaboration and compromise of the two groups

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