Russian politician, prime minister in 1917 (1881–1970)
He held Russia for three months between revolutions—long enough to lose it. Kerensky tried to keep a collapsing empire in a world war no one wanted, cracked down on the dissent that might have saved him, and watched the Bolsheviks take everything in October 1917.
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a lawyer and revolutionary who joined Russia's Provisional Government after the February Revolution of 1917, rising from Minister of Justice to Minister of War to prime minister by July. Leading the social-democratic Trudovik faction and serving as vice-chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, he held real power in a country tearing itself apart. His government's fatal choice was continuing World War I despite mass opposition, then cracking down on the anti-war sentiment that might have kept him afloat. The October Revolution ended his tenure in early November; the…
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