Alexander Kerensky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlexander Kerensky
Russian politician
Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1881
Place of Birth: Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia
Date of Death: 11-Jun-1970
Profession: lawyer, politician
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Alexander Kerensky
- Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky ( KERR-?n-skee, k?-REN-skee; Russian: ??????´??? ????????? ??´???????, IPA: [?l??k'sandr 'k?er??nsk??j]; original spelling: ?????????? ?????????? ?????????; 4 May [O.S.
- 22 April] 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionist who was a key political figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- After the February Revolution of 1917, he joined the newly formed Russian Provisional Government, first as Minister of Justice, then as Minister of War, and after July as the government's second Minister-Chairman.
- A leader of the moderate-socialist Trudovik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, he was also vice-chairman of the powerful Petrograd Soviet.
- On 7 November, his government was overthrown by the Lenin-led Bolsheviks in the October Revolution.
- He spent the remainder of his life in exile, in Paris and New York City, and worked for the Hoover Institution.
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