Alexander Kerensky

Minister-President of the Russian Republic

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky 4 May 1881 Simbirsk, Simbirsk Governorate, Russian Empire

11 June 1970 (aged 89) New York City, New York, United States

14 September 1917 – 7 November 1917 [1 September – 25 October 1917 Old Style]

Russian politician Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (/ˈ k ɛ r ə n s k i , k ə ˈ r ɛ n s k i / KERR -ən-skee, kə-REN -skee; Russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский , IPA:  ; original spelling: Александръ Ѳедоровичъ Керенскій ; 4 May  1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary 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 a 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.