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 formed	14 September 1917
Date dissolved	8 October 1917
People and organisations
Head of state	Grand Duke Michael (conditionally) Alexander Kerensky (de facto)
Head of government	Alexander Kerensky
Member parties	Socialist-Revolutionaries Mensheviks Progressive Bloc
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition cabinet	Executive Committee of Petrograd Soviet
Opposition parties	Bolsheviks Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
Opposition leader	Nikolay Chkheidze / Leon Trotsky
History
Incoming formation	Kerensky I
Outgoing formation	Kerensky III
Predecessor	Alexander Kerensky
Successor	Alexander Kerensky

Members

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

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 as the Constitutional Democratic Party members of the government left the Cabinet.

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

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

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.

See also

• Russian Provisional Government
• French Directory, a similar institution during the French Revolution