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Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970) was a Russian revolutionary and politician of liberal-socialist persuasions. In the eight months between February and October 1917, Kerensky was Russia’s most significant national leader, serving as justice minister, war minister and prime minister in the Provisional Government.

The provisional government, led first by Prince Georgy Lvov and then by Alexander Kerensky, lasted approximately eight months, and ceased to exist when the Bolsheviks gained power in the October Revolution in October [November, N.S.] 1917.

Alexander Kerensky was born on 4 May (22 April) 1881 in the Russian provincial town of Simbirsk (now Ul’ianovsk), the same birthplace of Lenin 11 years earlier. His father was a teacher and director of the local gymnasium where Lenin studied. The two families were friendly and belonged to the same middle class intellectual circle.

Alexander Kerensky played a prominent role in the Russian Revolution, holding several ministerial positions in the Provisional Government, which was created following the abdication of Tsar...

Kerensky was born on May 2 (April 22, in the Old Style calendar), 1881, in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), Russia. He studied law at the University of St. Petersburg, where he was exposed to the socialist (or populist) revolutionary movement. After graduating in 1904, Kerensky joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party and became a prominent lawyer.

Leader during the February Revolution and prime minister of the Russian Provisional Government from July to October 1917. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was born in Simbirsk (later Ulyanovsk), Russia, where his father was a schoolteacher and administrator. Among his father's pupils, by a quirk of history, was Vladimir Ulyanov, the future Lenin.