Alexander Kerensky:

Sheila fitzpatrick (June offensive)= Tarnished

'was a disaster in every sense'

Pipes: emotional characteristics

'was all impulse of emotion' -> 'proved incapable of coping with the responsibilities which he had assumed.'

However:

Continued support for the war despite failure of the June Offensive and severe fuel and food shortages in Moscow/Petrograd; fled to USA after October Revolution.

Who:

Leader of the SRs in 1917; member of Provisional Govt (Prime Minister after July Days) and at the same time a member of the Petrograd Soviet.

Figes: Kerensky became much like the Tsar

both men refused to recognise the revolutionary threat to their own authority -> 'rather the result of his own foolish optimism...'

'Knight of the Revolution'

he suppressed Bolshevism after the July Days and defeated Kornilov.