#alexander kerensky

[thenumber1meower]

[lesfleursdumal77]

im so sorry

[thepopculturearchivist]

From an interview with Alexander Kerensky, Lenin's predecessor as Russian leader. THE LIVING AGE, March 15, 1924.

[milton-john]

Waiting for Stalin to die so we can kick this power struggle shit off again, wbu??

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

Alexander Kerensky’s tenure as Prime Minister told as a heavy-handed anti-drug PSA

[suburbanbeatnik]

The world’s burning, but here’s some hot historical dudes that I drew to keep myself from going insane from lockdown. From left to right: John Graham of Claverhouse, an early Jacobite (c. 1680), Napoleon Bonaparte circa the Italian campaign (1797), and Alexander Kerensky (c. 1917), socialist and revolutionary during the Russian Revolution. 

[klimbims]

Alexander Kerensky | А.Ф. Керенский, 1917 by Olga

[mostly-history]

Russia's provisional government, too, was faced with monstrous problems.  It was being financed and generously supplied by the British and French but was increasingly unable to keep either its armies intact or its home front under control.  On April 11th, and All-Russian Conference of Soviets voted to support a continuation of the war, but it also called for negotiations aimed at achieving peace without annexations or indemnities on either side.  On April 15th, tens of thousands of Russian troops came out of their trenches to join with their German and Austrian adversaries in impromptu and nearly mutinous Easter celebrations.  On the following day Lenin arrived in Petrograd from his long exile in Switzerland; Ludendorff, hoping to foment further disruption inside Russia, had approved his travel by rail from Switzerland via Frankfurt, Berlin, Stockholm, and Helsinki.  Upon his arrival the Bolshevik leader began manouevring his followers into an anti-war stance calculated to take advantage of public discontent. The Russians had promised a May 1st attack in support of the Nivelle Offensive and had assembled a massive force for the purpose.  The offensive proved impossible, however, to carry out.  The troops had become ungovernable, and not enough coal could be found to operate the necessary trains.  On May 2nd, Kerensky became leader of the provisional government.  He tried to address the army's problems, but everything he did ended up making them worse.  When he released all men over age forty-three from military service, a transportation system that was already on the verge of collapse found itself mobbed by middle-aged veterans desperate to get to their homes.  When he abolished the death penalty for desertion, a million soldiers threw down their weapons.  Many were drawn homeward by the hope of getting a piece of land when the great estates of the aristocracy were distributed to the people.  Many were simply sick of war.

“A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918”