Kerensky Kerensky was a young man in 1917. In many ways, that was the tragedy of Russia in 1917, that such huge responsibility was placed on the shoulders of such an inexperienced man. Kerensky was also foolish. He was a great orator. He was very theatrical in his gestures. He was the darling of the Petrograd intelligencia. Young girls fell in love with him. Many of them wrote him love poems. There was a cult of Kerensky …showed first 75 words of 650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 650 total…the commanding officer to send him home, to make an example of him. The commanding officer was astounded. The soldier indeed fainted in disbelief. The officer tried to tell him: "But this is the view of all the soldiers. If I send him home, I should send the whole lot home!" But Kerensky would hear none of it, and believed that the soldiers should fight at the Front. Bibliography John C. Miylr, Crisis in Russia. 1979