# Provisional Government The **Russian Provisional Government** governed Russia between the February Revolution of 1917 and the Bolshevik seizure of power that October — led first by Prince Georgy Lvov and then by [[Alexander Kerensky]]. It shared authority uneasily with the [[Petrograd Soviet]] in the arrangement contemporaries called *dual power*, and its decision to continue Russia's participation in the First World War steadily drained the legitimacy it needed to survive. For this vault it is the reference case for a **liberal transitional government that fails by refusing to deliver the thing its population wanted most** — an outcome the authoritarian-consolidation literature returns to repeatedly. > [!note] Stub — fill out > To expand: the February Revolution and abdication, the dual-power arrangement, the June offensive, the July Days, the Kornilov affair, and the October collapse. ## See Also - [[Russian Revolution]] — the full sequence - [[Petrograd Soviet]] — the rival authority - [[Alexander Kerensky]] — its final head