Model Paper 3 — Social Studies STD 9 — Question

i. The provincial Government which was established after February revolution of 1917 was controlled by landlords, industrialists and army officials.
ii. Lenin was against the Provincial Government. He brought together different Soviets and prepared them for revolution.
iii. It was under the leadership of Lenin that the Provincial Government was overthrown by soviets. On 16th October 1917, Lenin persuaded the Petrograd Soviet and the Bolshevik Party to agree to a socialist seizure of power.