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Russian Provisional Government

Russia's government between the abdication of Nicholas II and the Bolshevik seizure of power (March–November 1917).

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Dates
15 Mar 1917 – 8 Nov 1917
Place
Saint Petersburg
Also known as
Provisional Government
How each side tells it

According to United States government

According to Alexander Kerensky

Formed after the February Revolution, the Provisional Government kept Russia in the war and was overthrown in the October Revolution. In July 1917 it accused Vladimir Lenin of having been sent by the Imperial German government; in this graph it is also a perspective.

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  • William Boyce Thompson 1917 via the American Red Cross mission According to United States government Being verified Primary record 1

    The US ambassador relays a Bolshevik newspaper's account that Red Cross money went to newspapers run by Breshko-Breshkovskaya and Kerensky's secretary, then notes Thompson's departure. Tying the money to Thompson personally is an inference, so this stays a draft.

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Timeline 2 dates
  1. 1917 William Boyce Thompson funded Russian Provisional Government According to United States government Being verified
  2. 15 Mar 1917 – 8 Nov 1917 Russian Provisional Government
Proof 5 sources
  1. The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State, December 8, 1917 (FRUS 1918, Russia, vol. I, doc. 288), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 8 Dec 1917. Primary record
    that Americans had promised two million dollars; that Sauskis brought “Robins and two other Americans,” who handed Breshkovskaya two packages of fifty thousand rubles paid by Americans
  2. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Internal Workings of the Soviet Union, Library of Congress. Primary record
    They had overthrown the provisional democratic government and were inherently hostile to any form of popular participation in politics.
  3. To the Citizens of Russia!, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 26, Progress Publishers), 7 Nov 1917. Primary record
    The Provisional Government has been deposed.
  4. The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State, March 15, 1917 (FRUS 1918, Russia, vol. I, doc. 3), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 15 Mar 1917. Primary record
    This committee proclaimed itself the Provisional Government and sent out following proclamation
  5. The Catastrophe: Kerensky's Own Story of the Russian Revolution, ch. XVIII: Gatchina, Marxists Internet Archive (text of the 1927 English edition), 1927. Primary record Archived copy
    With the hands of the Bolsheviki the Provisional Government was overthrown.
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