How and why was the provisional government of Kerenskii overthrown by the Bolsheviks?

How and why was the provisional government of Kerenskii overthrown by the Bolsheviks?

(i) Kerenskii’s government was overthrown because it was unpopular with the people. It failed to meet the demands of the people for peace, land to the tiller, control of industries to workers and equal status to non-Russian nationalities.

(ii) It sought to establish political democracy through constitutional means but the Bolsheviks wanted to establish a socialist state immediately, even if it meant taking recourse to violent me

(iii) The Bolsheviks campaigned against the war, and for peace on the basis of no annexations and no indemnities.

(iv) German advances threatened Petrograd. This increased support for the Bolsheviks. Moreover the Russian’s were war weary. Bolsheviks ranks swelled with numbers and they controlled the Petrograd Soviet.

(v) They successfully staged a coup in October 1917 and overthrew the Provisional Government of Kerenskii.