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Dual Power Dynamic
- The February Revolution resulted in dual power: the Provisional Government and the Soviet.
- The Soviet supported the Provisional Government conditionally, believing a bourgeois democratic phase was necessary before socialism.
Lenin's View on WWI
- Lenin, living in exile during World War I, was surprised by European socialist leaders' support for the war.
- He saw this as an opportunity to cleanse the movement of opportunists who abandoned internationalist principles.
Zimmerwald Conference
- The Zimmerwald Conference in 1915 gathered anti-war socialists, including Lenin and Trotsky.
- Despite agreeing on opposing the war, there were divisions, with Lenin criticizing those focused solely on pacifism.