Why is it said that the period of the provisional Government was a period of dual power?

The socialists in Petrograd organized elections among workers and soldiers. After this they formed a council known as the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. The council then began to put pressure on the bourgeois Provisional Government.

Though the Petrograd Soviet initially permitted the Provisional Government to rule, they wanted to hold more power and control various militias. This led to a power struggle between the two and to much confusion in governance.

This period of competition for authority ended in late October 1917. During that time, the Bolsheviks routed the ministers of the Provisional Government in what is known as the October Revolution.

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