The Provisional Government Was Making a Big Mistake

The final verdict of the february revolution was always supposed to be rendered by a constituent assembly. The provisional government dragged their feet on convening an electoral plan, so weeks passed and then months before they even had a preliminary idea of how to hold elections. It is going to become very easy to argue the provisional government was not interested in forging a government of the russian people, but of simply perpetuating their own power indefinitely. So that's the political situation heading into april 19 17. A great deal of hope and optimism getting its first tinges of suspicious disappointment. There were now multiple power structures forming out there,. all of them beginning to truly jostle with one each other