Alexander Kerensky The First Love of the Revolution

Richard Abraham

ISBN 10: 0231061080 / ISBN 13: 9780231061087

Published by Columbia University Press, 1987

About this Item

Undamaged yellow boards and spine, the latter with a black label lettered and lined in gilt. Blue jacket with portrait to front, lettered in yellow and white, rubbed on the two top front corners, shelf wear to top edge with 6 mm tear to top front edge and wear along top of spine 2 mm deep. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alexander Kerensky The First Love of the Revolution
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231061080
• ISBN 13: 9780231061087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Traces the life and career of the Russian leader who came to power after the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II but was forced into exile by Lenin, and describes Kerensky's life in the United States

Reviews

This book is the first full-length biography of the man who has gone down in history as the Russian whose actions opened the door to Lenin and the Bolshevik revolution. He has thus had a bad press. Abraham presents him "warts and all," so we have a real sense of the man, his strengths and, most of all, his great flaws. A central problem for the author has been the uneven life of his subject. Thus, about one fourth of the book covers Kerensky's first 36 years, nearly half treats the eight months of the provisional government, when he entered (and left) history, and a brief segment tells of the last 52 years of his life, spent in exile, defending his record. Abraham has thoroughly mined family and other archives; the portrait that emerges remains depressing. For informed laypersons as well as specialists. R.H. Johnston, History Dept., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ontario
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