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Kerenski

American  
[kuh-ren-skee, kye-ryin-skyee] / kəˈrɛn ski, ˈkyɛ ryɪn skyi /
Or Kerensky

noun

  1. Aleksandr Feodorovich 1881–1970, Russian revolutionary leader: premier 1917; in the U.S. after 1946.


Kerenski British  
/ ˈkjerɪnskij, kəˈrɛnskɪ /

noun

  1. Aleksandr Fyodorovich (alɪkˈsandr ˈfjɔdərəvitʃ). 1881–1970, Russian liberal revolutionary leader; prime minister (July–October 1917): overthrown by the Bolsheviks

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More surprising is the headlong courtship of Pitirim A. Sorokin, the Harvard sociologist who was once a member of Kerenski's Cabinet and an unrelenting foe of Lenin and Trotsky.

From Time Magazine Archive

A report dated June 13, 1917, which came to me from a neutral country, ran as follows: The Russian Press, bourgeois and socialistic, reveals the following state of affairs: At the front and at home bitter differences of opinion are rife as to the offensive against the Central Powers demanded by the Allies and now also energetically advocated by Kerenski in speeches throughout the country.

From Project Gutenberg

Kerenski's party, the Trudoviks, as also the related People's Socialists, represented in the Cabinet by the Minister of Food, Peschechonow, are still undecided whether to follow Kerenski here or not.

From Project Gutenberg

Verbal information, and utterances in the Russian Press, as, for instance, the Retch, assert that Kerenski's health gives grounds for fearing a fatal catastrophe in a short time.

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