Every 'Revolution of the Proletariat' Needs a Kerensky to Pave the Way for a Lenin
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- ▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Kerensky was a "communist-lite" revolutionary, a socialist who opposed the Bolsheviks
- ▪But he was weak, indecisive, and not very bright.
- ▪For example, when an army under a right-wing general headed for Petrograd, where Lenin and the Bolsheviks had their headquarters, Kerensky feared a military coup to set up a right-wing dictatorship.
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Every 'Revolution of the Proletariat' Needs a Kerensky to Pave the Way for a Lenin Rick Moran | 1:05 PM on July 24, 2026 AP Photo/Ethan Swope Before Vladimir Lenin took that fateful train from Zurich to Petrograd in 1918, courtesy of the Kaiser, who rightly believed Lenin's presence would destabilize Russia, there was Alexander Kerensky to keep his seat warm. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Kerensky was a "communist-lite" revolutionary, a socialist who opposed the Bolsheviks and the Czar. But he was weak, indecisive, and not very bright.
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