Prince Lvov’s
proposal offers six of the fifteen ministerial portfolios to the socialists.
The Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet voted to accept it, Bolsheviks
only voting against.
Lvov was to
remain as premier. Kerensky, a Social Revolutionary who was already in the
government, took the war ministry; the foreign ministry stayed with the Cadets
in the person of Tereshchenko. Socialists got the ministries of labor and of
trade and industry, and the Menshevik Tseretilli became minister of posts. No
Bolshevik joined the government.
Russia’s allies
in the Entente seem to have been pleased. A broader government embracing
leaders of the socialist revolution might be better able to keep Russia in the
war. This was certainly Kerensky’s intention.
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