Alexander Kerensky: The First Love of the Revolution
Richard Abraham "Alexander Kerensky: The First Love of the Revolution"
C–bia U-ty | ISBN: 0231061080, 0231061099 | 1987 | EPUB | 503 pages | 0,9 MB
C–bia U-ty | ISBN: 0231061080, 0231061099 | 1987 | EPUB | 503 pages | 0,9 MB
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