In the middle of a war and economic hardship Russians took to the streets and overthrew their corrupt, autocratic leader. It was February 1917 and for a few months it seemed that the end of the tsar’s reign would herald a democratic future. Alexander Kerensky, a socialist lawyer and politician, soon became the leading figure in the fledgling Provisional…
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