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Comrade Kerensky (Hardcover)
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Comrade Kerensky (Hardcover)
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As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime
Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander
Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader
during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts - sculptures,
badges and medals - featuring his likeness abounded. Streets were
renamed after him, his speeches were quoted on gravestones and
literary odes dedicated to him proliferated in the major press.
But, by October, Kerensky had been unceremoniously dethroned in the
Bolshevik takeover and had fled to Paris and then to the US, where
he would remain exiled and removed from his former glory until his
death. The breakneck trajectory of his rise and fall and the
intensity of his popularity were not merely a symptom of the chaos
of those times but offer a window onto a much broader historical
phenomenon which did not just begin with Lenin and Stalin - the
cult of the leader. In this major new study of the Russian
leadership cult, Boris Kolonitskii uses the figure of Kerensky to
show how popular engagement with the idea of the leader became a
key component of a cultural re-imagining of the political landscape
after the fall of the monarchy. A parallel revolution was taking
place on the level of creating a resonant political vocabulary
where one had not existed before, and it was in the shared exercise
of bestowing and dissolving authority that a politicised way of
seeing began to emerge. Kolonitskii plots the unfurling of this
symbolic revolution by examining the tapestry of images woven by
Kerensky and those around him, and, in so doing, exposes his vital
role in the development of nascent Soviet political culture. This
highly original portrait of a revolutionary sheds new light on the
cult of Kerensky that developed around this charismatic leader
during the months following the overthrow of the tsar. It will be
of value to students and scholars of Russian history and to those
interested in political culture.
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