The Directorate (Kerensky Second Government) was the short-lived transitional government of Russia during the Russian Revolution. It consisted of five main ministers and lasted for about three weeks.

Kerensky Second Government

11th Cabinet of Russia
Date formed14 September 1917
Date dissolved8 October 1917
People and organisations
Head of stateGrand Duke Michael (conditionally)
Alexander Kerensky (de facto)
Head of governmentAlexander Kerensky
Member partiesSocialist-Revolutionaries
Mensheviks
Progressive Bloc
Status in legislatureCoalition
Opposition cabinetExecutive Committee of Petrograd Soviet
Opposition partiesBolsheviks
Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
Opposition leaderNikolay Chkheidze / Leon Trotsky
History
Incoming formationKerensky I
Outgoing formationKerensky III
PredecessorAlexander Kerensky
SuccessorAlexander Kerensky

Members

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Post Name Party
Minister-President Alexander Kerensky Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Tereshchenko Non-party
Minister of Internal Affairs, Post and Telegraph Alexei Nikitin Menshevik
Minister of War Alexander Verkhovsky Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Minister of Navy Dmitry Verderevsky

History

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The Directorate was founded by decree of the Russian Provisional Government on 14 September 1917.[1] The Directorate was responsible for "public affairs until the establishment of the Cabinet." The Directorate was created to resolve the crisis stemming from the Kornilov Affair and the collapse of the Second Provisional Government[1] as the Constitutional Democratic Party members of the government left the Cabinet.[2]

On October 8, with the formation of the 3rd coalition, the Directorate was abolished.[1]

During the Directorate on September 14, Russia was proclaimed a republic and the State Duma of the Russian Empire was dissolved.[2]

During September 27 through October 5 at the Alexandrine Theater convened the All-Russian Democratic Conference which at the end formed the so-called Pre-parliament or the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic.[2]

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