RUSSIA AND HISTORY'S TURNING POINT

by Alexander Kerensky ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 5, 1965

This long awaited and massive work, by the former leader of the Russian Democratic Provisional Government that held power briefly between the fall of the Romanoff monarchy and the seizure of power by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, is in the form of a personal memoir and deals primarily with the history of Russian social and political life between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. It is certain to become an important document of history and will be the basis for many disputes among historians and others concerned with the fateful events of the Russian Revolution. In a series of intimate vignettes, Kerensky takes the reader behind the scenes of momentous political events including sessions with the de-throned Czar and his family. As a personal history of Kerensky and the activities of his period the book is invaluable, but although the author confesses that this is a ""personal"" rather than an ""objective"" history, his frequent moralizing as well as his contention that Lenin and the Bolsheviks were German agents and little else, would make even the most subjective historian blush.

Pub Date: Nov. 5, 1965

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1965

Categories: NONFICTION