Alexander Kerensky

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881 to 1970) was a Russian lawyer, socialist politician and revolutionary who became the best-known leader of Russia between the fall of the tsar and the Bolshevik seizure of power. After the February Revolution of 1917 he entered the provisional government, serving first as Minister of Justice and then as Minister of War, and from late July he headed the government as its second Minister-Chairman. He also held a senior post in the Petrograd Soviet and led the Trudovik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. His government kept Russia in the First World War despite widespread opposition and cracked down on anti-war dissent, which eroded its support. The Bolsheviks removed it in the October Revolution, and Kerensky spent the rest of his life in exile, mainly in Paris and New York, where he also worked with the Hoover Institution. He died in New York in 1970 and was buried in London.