Biography russian revolution leader of provisional government

Leader during the February Revolution and prime minister of the Russian Provisional Government from July to October 1917.

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was born in Simbirsk (later Ulyanovsk), Russia, where his father was a schoolteacher and administrator.

Biography russian revolution leader of provisional government

Among his father's pupils, by a quirk of history, was Vladimir Ulyanov, the future Lenin. The two future rivals did not know each other in Simbirsk because of age differences. After spending his teen years in Tashkent in Central Asia, Kerensky studied history and law at St.

Petersburg University. On graduation he became an attorney, joining a legal aid society that provided free legal assistance to the poor.

Biography russian revolution leader of provisional government russia

Involvement in radical politics led to his temporary arrest in December 1905. In 1906 he became a defense lawyer in political cases and began to make a name for himself as a defender of popular causes and ordinary people against government or employer repression.

In 1912 he was a