The first rival of the Provisional Government was Leninâ??s secret police. This group was also known to many in the country as the Cheka.
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The Russian Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by the Bolshevik Revolution. It did not overthrow Tsar Nicholas II. He had already been overthrown by the February Revolution.
Georgy Lvov
Prince Georgi Lvov and later Alexander Kerensky led the Russian Provisional Government during the time between the two revolutions. Lvov headed it when it was first formed after the first revolution. Three months late he resigned and Alexander Kerensky took over. Three months after than Lenin and the Bolsheviks staged the October Revolution and ousted Kerensky and the entire Provisional Government.
The Provisional Government tried to continue to fight the Germans in WWI. The Russian people were heartily sick of the war, which gobbled up Russian peasants by the million. This sort of leadership, which was so profligate of the lives of Russians and so expansively incompetent, was the prime motivating factor that led to the deposition of the Czar in the first place. When the Bolsheviks toppled the Provisional Government, they did not make the same mistake, and were going to make peace with Germany at any price, the price ultimately being a huge chunk of western Russia (retrieved and returned by the victorious Allied Powers at the Versailles Conference) and a near alliance with the former enemy Germans.
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