This episode investigates the short‑lived Provisional Government of 1917, analysing its attempts to stabilise Russia after the fall of the monarchy while facing war weariness, economic breakdown and growing Bolshevik opposition. We examine its key decisions—continuing the war, delaying land reform, sharing power uneasily with the Petrograd Soviet—and how these weaknesses, combined with Lenin’s return and the rise of the Bolsheviks, paved the way for its overthrow in October.