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After the Provisional Government made it quite apparent to the Soviet soldiers that they would not be recalled from the Western Front, the soldiers began to seek information on another political group that could provide help "the Bolsheviks. In a letter to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets, the soldiers ask for more information on the Bolsheviks, since they no longer find the empty promises of the Provisional Government worth their support. In a direct letter to Kerensky, the soldiers state their intentions of deserting the fronts by autumn, whether or not the order is given by their commanders, and implore Kerensky to end the war so they may return and take care of their starving families. Gradually the soldiers begin to realize the faults of the Provisional Government's policy, in foreign relations, by keeping them in war, and also in the domestic realm, where their families continued to suffer from starvation and extreme economic recesses. .
The continuing economic crisis back home, augmented by the famine, urged people towards the radical left while the Provisional Government continued to fail at putting forth any reasonable solution. Factories began to experience endless strikes and from both sides there was an outcry for more government involvement. The workers wanted help in supporting their demands and the factory management wanted more help from the government in controlling the uprisings and strikes of their workers. As the Provisional Government proved that they couldn't provide for either side, both parties sought another form of assistance. The workers more specifically through the idea of "Socialist power- which they believed would cater to their desired style of hands-on government. .
As food shortages progressed within the city and the Provisional Government employed food rationing, violence and protest broke out in an effort to quell the clamor for food among the abundant amount of underpaid industrial workers.
