Answer:
(a) The provisional government under Kerensky failed to meet the demands of the people. These being peace, withdrawal from the war, land to the tiller, control of industries to workers and equal status to all non-Russian nationalities. (b) Kerensky?s government sought to establish political democracy through constitutional methods but the Bolsheviks wanted to establish a socialist government immediately even if it meant taking recourse to violent means. (c) The Bolsheviks campaigned against the war and wanted to bring about peace on the basis of no annexations and no indemnities. (d) The German advance after taking Riga threatened Petrograd itself. This increased support for the Bolsheviks whose ranks swelled with numbers and they began to control the Petrograd Soviet. (e) Finally in 1917, they staged a coup and overthrew the Provisional Government of Kerensky.
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