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Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky



Kerensky, Alexander Feodorovich (1881–1970), Russian revolutionary, head of the provisional government that followed the Russian Revolution from July to Oct. 1917. Overthrown in the Bolshevik Revolution (Nov. 1917), he fled to Western Europe and in 1940 escaped to the United States. His books include The Prelude to Bolshevism (1919), The Catastrophe (1927), and The Kerensky Memoirs (1966).



See also: Russian Revolution.

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