February Revolution
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The February Revolution, known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Rus
Protests in Petrograd, March 1917
Students and soldiers firing across the Moyka at the police
The abdication of Nicholas II on 2 March 1917 O.S. In the royal train: Minister of the Court Baron Fredericks, General N. Ruzsky, V. V. Shulgin, A. I. Guchkov, Nicholas II. (State Historical Museum)
Protesters on the Nevsky Prospekt
Alexander Kerensky
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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian politician, lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to ear
February Revolution
…unpopular and was forced to share dual power with the Petrograd Soviet. After the July Days, in which the government killed hundreds of protesters, Alexander Kerensky became the head of the government. He was unable to resolve Russia's immediate problems, including food shortages and mass unemployment, as he attempted…
Kerensky in 1917
Kerensky as Minister of War (sitting second from the right)
Kerensky sitting next to later Supreme Leader, Alexander Kolchak
Kerensky in office