First Socialist Society

Initially these two large factions had a symbiotic relationship. That is because the former Duma membership did not have armed support, except from the officer corps and because the new urban soviets, composed mainly of nonelite masses except in leadership cadres, did not have organizational political skills (36). Each faction knew the other's weaknesses, though the national political faction turned out to be more vulnerable because it was unable to be effective. For one thing, Russia as a nation-state was still one of the Allies in the Great War, which was bleeding resources and which was marked by rebellious grumbling among ranks suffering from lack of wartime materiel. For another, the Provisional Government could not actually implement on a grand scale any reforms that it promised, such as land redistribution

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