Alexander Kerensky: The First Love Of The Revolution
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the explosive heart of the Russian Revolution stood one man whose rise and fall encapsulates the tragedy of a nation torn between its past and an uncertain future — Alexander Kerensky, the brilliant, impassioned lawyer who briefly held the fate of Russia in his hands. Richard Abraham's meticulously researched biography chronicles the life of this extraordinary yet deeply contradictory figure, tracing his ascent from provincial Simbirsk — the same town that produced Lenin — through the corridors of the Duma, to his electrifying leadership of the short-lived Provisional Government of 1917. Abraham presents Kerensky not as a footnote to Bolshevik triumph, but as the pivotal, tragic protagonist of a revolution that might have charted a radically different course for the twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, the author illustrates the immense pressures of war, class conflict, and political extremism that ultimately overwhelmed Kerensky's liberal democratic vision. Written with scholarly rigour and narrative verve, this biography restores to its subject a complexity and humanity long obscured by Soviet historiography — leaving the reader to wonder how close Russia truly came to a different destiny.
Author: Richard Abraham
Format: Hardback
Published: 1987, Sidgwick & Jackson
Genre: Biography
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the explosive heart of the Russian Revolution stood one man whose rise and fall encapsulates the tragedy of a nation torn between its past and an uncertain future — Alexander Kerensky, the brilliant, impassioned lawyer who briefly held the fate of Russia in his hands. Richard Abraham's meticulously researched biography chronicles the life of this extraordinary yet deeply contradictory figure, tracing his ascent from provincial Simbirsk — the same town that produced Lenin — through the corridors of the Duma, to his electrifying leadership of the short-lived Provisional Government of 1917. Abraham presents Kerensky not as a footnote to Bolshevik triumph, but as the pivotal, tragic protagonist of a revolution that might have charted a radically different course for the twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, the author illustrates the immense pressures of war, class conflict, and political extremism that ultimately overwhelmed Kerensky's liberal democratic vision. Written with scholarly rigour and narrative verve, this biography restores to its subject a complexity and humanity long obscured by Soviet historiography — leaving the reader to wonder how close Russia truly came to a different destiny.