... 20 - 21 The April Days. Opposition to the Foreign Minister Milyukov boils over due to his refusal to renounce annexations. 1917 May Milyukov resigns. Members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government. 1917 June 3 First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens. 1917 June 18 Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary. 1917 July The July Days. (3rd and 4th) Workers and soldiers in Petrograd demand the Soviet takes power. Sporadic fighting results and the Soviet restores order with troops brought back from the front. Trotsky arrested. Lenin goes into hiding. A new provisional government is set up with Kerensky at it's head (8th). 1917 July 12th Death Penalty reintroduced for the front. 1917 Aug The Kornilov putsch. An attempt by General Kornilov to establish a right wing dictatorship is a disastrous flop. Chernov the leader of the Socialist Revolutionaries resigns from the government ...

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