The greatest challenge to the authority of the Provisional Government came from the
A) remnants of the tsarist autocracy.
B) potential peasant uprisings.
C) Bolsheviks.
D) Mensheviks.
E) army.

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The Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, were the greatest challenge to the authority of the Provisional Government. They opposed the government's decision to continue Russia's participation in World War I and advocated for a socialist revolution. The Bolsheviks eventually overthrew the government in the October Revolution of 1917.

The Greatest Challenge to the Authority of the Provisional Government