RIVALS OF THE REVOLUTION
Mar 18, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: JON BAUCKHAM
ALEXANDER KERENSKY
“THROUGH IMPASSIONED SPEECHES, KERENSKY PROMISED TO LEAD RUSSIA TOWARDS A BRIGHTER FUTURE”
The deposed prime minister
For a few frenzied months, Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970) was the most powerful man in Russia. Following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917, the Socialist Revolutionary Party politician was appointed justice minister in Prince Georgiy Lvov’s Provisional Government, before being promoted to war minister and eventually succeeding Lvov in the highest office of all. Indeed, for a brief time, it seemed as though Kerensky – a former lawyer who had devoted his career to defending revolutionaries – would be the figurehead of post-tsarist
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