The February Revolution can be considered an instinctive revolution; during that period, Russian people were living in misery and relentlessness: food went bad in trains between the long transports leading to food shortages and mortality rates increased due to poor housing conditions. In the October Revolution instead Bolsheviks seized power from the Provisional Government.
“The movement broke out spontaneously without preparation and exclusively on the basis of the supply crisis… The military either today or tomorrow will come out openly on the side of the revolutionary forces that the movement which has begun will not subside but grow ceaselessly until ultimate victory and the overthrow of the government”; this communicate was written by the Okhrana Report on the 26th of February 1917 during the first revolution. Things worsen during March of the same year when wages rose and Russia’s currency (rouble) totally dropped… food prices rose and the great majority of people couldn’t afford anything. Workers went on strike, factories closed down and on Thursday 8th March “International Women’s Day” took place where the majority of socialists women went on the streets and demonstrated against food shortages… The army instead of going against these demonstration, falled in.
On the 12th of March 1917 the Duma set up the new
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It was led by Lenin’s Bolsheviks and the Provisional government functioned as the official government until the new elections were held. The Provisional government was absolutely necessary, whilst it carried out its declared programme: “an amnesty, the granting of individual freedoms, the repeal of estate, religious and national restrictions and preparations for the Constituent Assembly”. Despite the fact that there was the Provisional Government at the same time an offstage government was growing known as the Petrograd Soviet; its aim was to protect soldier’s and worker’s