HISTORY 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pavel Milyukov, Petrograd Soviet, Saint Petersburg
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It became clear that the divisions between society were real and were going to be difficult to overcome. b: february - march, february revolution i. ii. iii. Dual power dvoevlasatie : the april days lenin returns a. In april, the foreign minister of the provisional government, pavel miliukov declared a letter to the allies that they are going to continue to support the war aims of the old imperial government, they still want constantinople and reparations. This idea was of something that the soviets could not accept. Ordinary soldiers did not want to fight for these imperial aids. Then, there is the april crisis, and miliukov is forced to step down. The fact that the soldiers went out to the street against the government shows that the power laid with the soviet and not the government. i. Lenin arrived in april and wanted to spark a socialist revolution in all of europe to create a socialist world.
