The Directorate ( Kerensky Second Government) was the short-lived

transitional government A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, or a transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of a newly formed state or f ...

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during the

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. It consisted of five main ministers and lasted for about three weeks.

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The Directorate was founded by decree of the

Russian Provisional Government The Russian Provisional Government ( rus, Временное правительство России, Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of the Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately ...

on 14 September 1917.ХРОНИКА СМУТНОГО ВРЕМЕНИ. СЕНТЯБРЬ 1917 ГОДА
Историк 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 The Constitutional Democratic Party (russian: Конституцио́нно-демократи́ческая па́ртия, translit=Konstitutsionno-demokraticheskaya partiya, K-D), also called Constitutional Democrats and formally the Party of P ...

members of the government left the Cabinet.Спираль 1917: Сентябрьская «Директория»
fontanka.ru. On October 8, with the formation of the 3rd coalition, the Directorate was abolished. During the Directorate on September 14, Russia was proclaimed a

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and the

State Duma of the Russian Empire The State Duma, also known as the Imperial Duma, was the lower house of the Governing Senate in the Russian Empire, while the upper house was the State Council. It held its meetings in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It convened four time ...

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 Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (, (also known as Pre-parliament) was a legislative assembly of the Russian Republic. It convened at the Marinsky Palace on October 20, 1917, but was dissolved by the Bolsheviks on November, 7/8, 1917 ...

or the

Provisional Council of the Russian Republic Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (, (also known as Pre-parliament) was a legislative assembly of the Russian Republic. It convened at the Marinsky Palace on October 20, 1917, but was dissolved by the Bolsheviks on November, 7/8, 1917 ...

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{{Russian Government Cabinets 1917 in Russia Russian Revolution Russian governments Russian Provisional Government Cabinets established in 1917

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