Alexander Kerensky : The First Love of the Revolution / Richard Abraham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abraham, Richard, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 1881-1970.

Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich.

Prime ministers--Soviet Union--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Russia--History--February Revolution, 1917.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 503 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : facsimiles, portraits

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1987]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Traces the life and career of the Russian leader, Alexander Kerensky, who came to power after the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II. Follows his forced exile by Lenin and later life in the United States.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Inspector Kerensky's Career

2. A Hesitant Hero

3. Against the Tide

4. Tribune of the People

5. Terribly Little Time

6. Citizen Brutus

7. Fires of Hope and Aspiration

8. The People's Minister of Justice

9. Ambition and Diplomacy

10. Patriotism of a New Type

11. "The Supreme Persuader-in-Chief"

12. No Longer an Idealist?

13. Statesman or Revolutionary?

14. Reproaches and Slander

15. All Necessary Measures

16. Regeneration?

17. A Romantic Exile

18. The Long Reprieve

Notes

Index of Names

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-457) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231877640

0231877641

OCLC:

13860809