"Peace, Bread, and Land" Lenin's slogan in the Revolution. Peace from the war; Land for the peasants; Food for all. Alexander Kerensky Headed the Provisional Government in 1917. Refused to redistribute confiscated landholdings to the peasants. Thought fighting the war was a national duty. Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the Austria- Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I. Army Order #1 Issued by the Petrograd Soviet shipped offices of their authority and placed the power in the hands of elected committees of common soldiers. Balkan Wars Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria took Macedonia from the Ottomans in 1912. Serbia then fought Bulgaria in the second Balkan War in 1913 Austria intervened to stop the war.