Alexander Kerensky: The First Love of the Revolution - Softcover

Richard Abraham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231061099 ISBN 13: 9780231061094

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1990

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

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From the Back Cover:

In this innovative biography, Richard Abraham offers a comprehensive analysis of Alexander Kerensky's politics and an intimate portrait of the Russian revolutionary's role during the turbulent times of the 1917 Revolution and World War I.

From Library Journal:

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0231061099
• ISBN 13: 9780231061094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 503