deration enabled the Bolsheviks to overthrow
his government later in 1917. Kerensky fled to Paris, where he continued as an
active propagandist
against the Soviet regime. In 1940 he fled to the United States; later he
continued to travel and
lecture. He wrote The Prelude to Bolshevism (1919).
Kerensky?
The internet is full of information, unfortunately it tends not to be full of
the information that
you want. This is the case regarding Alexander Kerensky. While researching this
project on the
Web, I found that there were plenty of hits when you ran Kerensky through the
search sites, but
ninety-nine percent of them were about FASA's Battletech game, which I quite
like, but was
certainly frustrated by. Lenin, Marx, Rasputin, and even Nicholas II all have
sites, but not a one is
to be found for Alexander Kerensky.
Therefore, this page. This page should help you to gain an understanding of who
Kerensky
was and where he came from in a manner similar to that which is provided by the
links page for
Lenin.
Kerensky's Early Life
Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk on 22 April 1881. Ironically, this is
the same
town in which Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) was born. Alexander's father was a
director of a
grammar school for boys and a secondary school for girls. Alexander's family was
one which
strictly obeyed the Orthodox customs, and he was known to have had strong
religious feelings all
through his life.
At age six, Kerensky was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the hip, which resulted
in his
restriction to bed for several months. He made the best of his situation by
taking the oportunity to
read many books.
Later, when Kerensky was nine years old, his family moved to Turkestan, an area
only
recently opened to settlement by Russians. The indigenous people of the area are
Moslems, and the
law there is still largely dictated by the Koran, though there are Russian Style
Jury Trials.
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