Analyzing Kerensky's Struggle For A Constitutional Democracy In Russia
The students pull their desks into a semicircle. Someone cracks a joke about the failing eyesight of their octogenarian professor. "The old man can't see too well," one of the students says, "but he knows what's going on."
Then, right on time, the professor enters: gentleman with thick glasses and white hair cropped into a crew cut. He is the MAN who forced into exile by Lenin and the Bolsheviks 48 years earlier. For a brief eight months in Russian history--after the fall of the Romanov czars and before Lenin ushered in 74 years of Communist rule--HE was the central figure in a doomed effort to bring democracy to Russia.
How did this small, dynamic Russian, who at age 36 reached the top of power in his home country, find his way to a small classroom half a world away and half a century later? …show more content…
Or was there a chance that this frail old man could, in his prime, have led Russia toward a constitutional democracy?
Who was this man who stood in the eye of the hurricane that was Russia in 1917? Kerensky was a moderate socialist whose passionate, lifelong goal was to see a Western-syle constitutional democracy in Russia. He tried valiantly, but ultimately failed, to straddle the ever-widening gulf between the relative conservatives, who felt the Revolution to be complete with the simple elimination of the monarchy, and the radical leftists pushing for much more extreme social and economic transformations.
"The Kerensky of March," says famous historian, "has been overshadowed by the Kerensky of
Then, right on time, the professor enters: gentleman with thick glasses and white hair cropped into a crew cut. He is the MAN who forced into exile by Lenin and the Bolsheviks 48 years earlier. For a brief eight months in Russian history--after the fall of the Romanov czars and before Lenin ushered in 74 years of Communist rule--HE was the central figure in a doomed effort to bring democracy to Russia.
How did this small, dynamic Russian, who at age 36 reached the top of power in his home country, find his way to a small classroom half a world away and half a century later? …show more content…
Or was there a chance that this frail old man could, in his prime, have led Russia toward a constitutional democracy?
Who was this man who stood in the eye of the hurricane that was Russia in 1917? Kerensky was a moderate socialist whose passionate, lifelong goal was to see a Western-syle constitutional democracy in Russia. He tried valiantly, but ultimately failed, to straddle the ever-widening gulf between the relative conservatives, who felt the Revolution to be complete with the simple elimination of the monarchy, and the radical leftists pushing for much more extreme social and economic transformations.
"The Kerensky of March," says famous historian, "has been overshadowed by the Kerensky of