... onto its' power, and that they had swapped one dictatorship for another. To many people it seemed the Provisional Government had made no real changes, and was just a new set of people in charge instead of the Tsar; AJP Taylor, a British historian wrote this: 'Otherwise nothing had changed. The Provisional Government simply carried on the old system, just as a hen continues to run round the yard when its head has been cut off.' This said, at the beginning the Russian people did want to give the Provisional Government a chance to sort out the crisis, but by the end they were revolting against it. The fact that it was weak and unable to make quick and precise decisions, organising and putting into effect what it wanted to do, was one of the reasons that the Provisional Government lasted for only eight months. The Russian people wanted quick improvements in ...

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