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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky[ b] (4 May [ O.S. 22 April] 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 ( N.S. ).
Aleksandr Kerensky, moderate socialist revolutionary who served as head of the Russian provisional government from July to October 1917. When the Bolshevik Party seized power in the October Revolution, Kerensky went into hiding before escaping to western Europe and, ultimately, the United States.
Alexander Kerensky played a prominent role in the Russian Revolution, holding several ministerial positions in the provisional government, which was created following the abdication of Tsar...
Between the fall of Nicholas II in March 1917 and the rise of Vladimir Lenin in October, Russia’s most significant national leader was Alexander Kerensky. During the eight months of the Provisional Government Kerensky held three important portfolios: justice, war and the prime ministership.
KERENSKY, ALEXANDER (1881–1970) Leader during the February Revolution and prime minister of the Russian Provisional Government from July to October 1917. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was born in Simbirsk (later Ulyanovsk), Russia, where his father was a schoolteacher and administrator.
May 17, 2018 · The Russian revolutionary and politician Aleksandr Fedorovich Kerensky (1881-1970) was the central figure around whom the fate of representative government and socialism revolved in Russia during the Revolution of 1917.
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, a pivotal figure in the revolutionary tide that swept Russia in 1917, found himself a man without a nation in death as much as in life. The irony of his final...
Oct 25, 2017 · Alexander Kerensky played a prominent role in the Russian Revolution, holding several ministerial positions in the Provisional Government, which was created following the abdication of Tsar...
A brilliant orator and skilled parliamentary leader, he became a member of the Provisional Committee of the Duma as a Socialist Revolutionary and a leader of the socialist opposition to the regime of the ruling tsar, Nicholas II . February Revolution of 1917.
Nov 6, 2017 · Alexander Kerensky spoke out in support of Menachem Mendel Beilis, an innocent Jewish man on trial for allegedly committing ritual murder in Kiev in 1913.