Question by jhfjkfdajkfd: Why did Alexander Kerensky choose to continue Russia’s involvement in WWI?
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Answer by ammianus
The Provisional Government needed the support of the Allied governments to be recognized as legal; otherwise, they might use military force to try to help the Czar regain power (as happened when the Bolsheviks seized power).
In 1914, Britain,France and Russia had agreed that no one country would make a separate peace with Germany. If Kerensky’s government had opted out of this agreement,it was unlikely that the Allies’ governments would recognize it as legal. If they didn’t, no foreign government would,and the Czar could have found support from abroad,particularly from the Allies, to regain power.
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El says
After the first government crisis over Pavel Milyukov's secret note re-committing Russia to its original war aims on May 2-4, Kerensky became the Minister of War and the dominant figure in the newly formed socialist-liberal coalition government. Under Allied pressure to continue the war, he launched what became known as the Kerensky Offensive against the Austro-Hungarian/German South Army on June 17, Old Style. At first successful, the offensive was soon stopped and then thrown back by a strong counter-attack. The Russian Army suffered heavy losses and it was clear – from many incidents of desertion, sabotage, and mutiny – that the Russian Army was no longer willing to attack.