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a-a-ra-s-s-s-s-a-s-s-a-s-a-s- Again, Episode 69, the Provisional Government.

Russia, with the abdication of Nicholas II, was on the

first time since the Vetchas of Novgorod, the people were going to have a say

and how their country would be run.

Alas, this grand democratic experiment, would only last a little more than seven months.

Prince Grigori Lievov, a member of an important Zemsvaux, was the Prime Minister of the newly formed

provisional government. Lievov, while the face of the new government, was not the most important

member.

Pavel Melyokoff, the foreign minister, and member of the Cadet Party, and Alexander Kerensky,

the most liberal member, were the most influential.

Kerensky was by far the most powerful person

as he was not only a member of the provisional government,

he was a member of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers deputies.

This Soviet, along with the others dotting the Russian landscape, would severely undermine

the provisional government,

something this fragile group did not need.

The Soviets, kind of the real power now,

as the provisional government had no real way of enforcing its authority.

The Tsarist secret police were disbanded and the military forces in the two major cities,

Petrograd and Moscow, were more and more in line with the Soviets.

And honestly, while the members of the provisional government were pretty liberal, most of them

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