The question of war aims comes to the front and center when the liberal ministers of the Provisional Government repeatedly refuse to renounce Russian territorial claims and agree with the Petrograd Soviet on a “peace without annexations or indemnities.”
The resulting government shake-up brought socialists into the Provisional Government and made it a government of national unity like the ones in London and Paris…except for the Bolsheviks, who refuse to temper their criticisms.
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Fanfare
Opening War Theme
Piano Sonata No. 3
Composed in 1917 by Sergei Prokofiev. Public domain.
Performed by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Source.
Closing War Theme
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