Question

What kind of government did Russia have during the eight months between February and October of 1917?

a government controlled by the tsar who had enough control of the army's military leaders to hold onto power

a joint government in which the Provisional Government handled politics and the Petrograd Soviets handled the economy

a purely democrative government run by the Bolsheviks and protected by the Red Army

no government, since Lenin and Stalin were in charge of establishing a provisional government during this period

Answer 1

The second option. After the February Revolution Russia was ruled by a "dual power": the Provisional Government handled formal state/political authority while the Petrograd Soviet (and other soviets) exerted real control over workers, soldiers and economic/industrial orders.