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The strain of modern war in World War I, for which Russia was not prepared, the pressure of the opposition parties, which increasingly used personal abuse as a weapon against the imperial family for their intimacy with the notorious holy man Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin and denounced the government for its inefficiency, and the inefficiency itself, proved too great a weight on the absolutist structure. When in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) in March 1917 a demonstration for International Women's Day turned into a riot against bread shortage and mutinous troops joined in, the government lost control and power slipped into the hands of a provisional government made up of leading figures from the State Duma. Tsar Nicholas II, isolated from all support, abdicated. His son was excluded from succession because of his fragile health, and his brother Grand Duke Michael declined the crown unless it were offered by a democratically elected constituent assembly; since this was not an option the 300 year-old Romanov dynasty came to an end.
IV The Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet
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The provisional government immediately enacted a number of liberal laws, also abolishing the police and gendarmes and replacing them by a people's militia. The new conditions of total freedom of speech enabled the socialists in Russia at last to voice their opposition to the war and to call for a "democratic peace without reparations and annexations". A mood of collective rejoicing and mutual forgiveness affected even the most militant party, the Bolsheviks, whose leaders returned from their Siberian exile and conducted party policy in the absence of their true leader, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, who was still in Switzerland. Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov and Joseph Stalin, as editors of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda (The Truth), joined the general line being followed by the Council of Workers' and Soldiers'...
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