Kerensky


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Russian revolutionary who was head of state after Nicholas II abdicated but was overthrown by the Bolsheviks (1881-1970)

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Indiferente a torrente de insultos lancada pelos partidarios de Kerensky, a experiente revolucionaria e representante bolchevique na Duma municipal, Viera Slutskaia, tomou a palavra, gritando em direcao ao prefeito: "Isso e mentira!
The Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries overthrew a government led by moderate socialist Alexander Kerensky that had come to power in February 1917 but refused to get out of WWI.
A hundred years ago, Lenin and Trotsky overthrew the last Romanov Tsar and Alexander Kerensky's provisional government.
A "social revolutionary," Alexander Kerensky, won the top position in the new regime.
In 1917, he was Alexander Kerensky's secretary before the October Revolution.
For instance, Augustin Laurent, former mayor of Lille and former socialist minister, the secretary of the SFIO's powerful Nord federation, attempted to defend the legacy of February and of Kerensky in a congress:
Donna Mello, Kim Powers, Max Sandusky, AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod Massachusetts; Heather Kennedy, Jesse Pack, Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc., Massachusetts; Haley Fiske, Todd Kerensky; Boston Medical Center; Susan Manning, Mei Shang, CDC; Kevin Botelho, Ellen Boundy, Alfred DeMaria, Greg Grays-Thomas, Thomas Land, Deryk Meehan, Eduardo Nettle, Jen Parks, Brittni Reilly, Paige Shaffer, Amy Sorensen-Alawad, Kevin Stanton, Sarah Stone, Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Deborah Isenberg, consultant to Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Connie Rocha-Mimosa, Jessica Rodriguez, Seven Hills Foundation; Alejandro Azofeifa, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, Maryland.
The King, Constantine's son George II, now under house arrest, appears in the last interchapter of the volume, praising Plastiras for his killing of the ministers, and saying that Kerensky might have saved his government from Lenin's communist takeover if he had shot more communists while he was prime minister.
According to Kerensky, what Stoppard did not want with Travesties was the play ending up to be "an inconsequential Dadaist play" (86).
The Kerensky Government temporized, and pleaded lack of transport.
One was Michael Kerensky, a Houston lawyer who filed 81 cases claiming injury from diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccines.