Directorate (Russia)

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 formed1 September 1917
Date dissolved7 November 1917
People and organisations
Head of stateGrand Duke Michael (conditionally)
Alexander Kerensky (de facto)
Head of governmentAlexander Kerensky
Member partySocialist-Revolutionaries
Status in legislatureCoalition
Opposition cabinetExecutive Committee of Petrograd Soviet
Opposition partyRSDLP
Opposition leaderNikolay Chkheidze / Leon Trotsky
History
Incoming formationKerensky I
Outgoing formationLenin
PredecessorAlexander Kerensky
SuccessorVladimir Lenin

Members
Post Name Party
Minister-PresidentAlexander KerenskySocialist-Revolutionary Party
Vice-President, Minister of Trade and IndustryAleksandr KonovalovKadets
Minister of Foreign AffairsMikhail TereshchenkoNon-party
Minister of Internal Affairs, Post and TelegraphAlexei NikitinMenshevik
Minister of WarAlexander Verkhovsky
Minister of NavyDmitry Verderevsky
Minister of FinanceMikhail Bernatsky
Minister of JusticePavel MalyantovitchMenshevik
Minister of TransportAlexander LiverovskyNon-party
Minister of EducationSergei SalazkinNon-party
Minister of AgricultureSemen MaslovSocialist-Revolutionary Party
Minister of LabourKuzma GvozdevMenshevik
Minister of FoodSergei ProkopovichNon-party
Minister of Health CareNikolai KishkinKadet
Minister of Post and TelegraphAlexei NikitinMenshevik
Minister of ReligionAnton KartashevKadet

History

The Directorate was founded by decree of the Russian Provisional Government on 14 September 1917. 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.

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

During the Directorate, Russia was proclaimed a republic and the State Duma of the Russian Empire was dissolved.

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