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Definition of Kerensky
1. Noun. Russian revolutionary who was head of state after Nicholas II abdicated but was overthrown by the Bolsheviks (1881-1970).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerensky
Literary usage of Kerensky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1920)
"Kerensky, in the crisis that followed within a few months, seemed to some ...
Kerensky again gave evidence of possessing the instinct of leadership when, ..."
2. Inside the Russian Revolution by Rheta Childe Dorr (1917)
"Who is Kerensky? What kind of a man is he? Why hasn't he restored order in Russia
... But I was in Russia three months, and I watched Kerensky progress from ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Every step of Kerensky was known to the Police Department: when and where he went,
... Kerensky took into his family a well-recommended young man, ..."
4. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1919)
"This fact Kerensky evidently realized better than anyone after the collapse of
the midsummer ... The latter Kerensky had tried to awaken. He had failed. ..."
5. The Firebrand of Bolshevism: The True Story of the Bolsheviki and the Forces by Catherine Radziwill (1919)
"The captain was told that Kerensky was shy of strangers, ... The captain was
given to understand that Kerensky was a very suspicious individual and that, ..."
6. Russian Revolution Aspects by Robert Edward Crozier Long (1919)
"With no medals or badges of rank, with ill-made breeches and puttees badly put
on over rough shoes, the physically frail Kerensky contrasted picturesquely ..."
7. From Autocracy to Bolshevism by Peter Graevenitz (1918)
".Kerensky undoubtedly desired the prosecution of the war, and he believed ...
On May 23rd Kerensky started for the Front, and visited one division after ..."
8. The Rebirth of Russia by Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1917)
"X—The Man Kerensky f • ^HE Russian Revolution produced aI democracy, but it also
revealed the • rarest of human institutions—a great leader. ..."
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