Abstract

Kerensky

Russian revolutionary leader, Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky is forty-five years old. He is the head of a government which has ceased to exist and the editor of a paper which has ceased to appear. One pities him especially during his stay in the U.S. People in the U.S. have treated Kerensky as a great leader and as the representative of something which he knows he neither leads nor represents. In Europe, as he follows the depreciating currencies from Prague to Berlin to Paris, they leave him in peace. There he is merely the publisher of a thin little Russian émigrés' tabloid. It requires courage to live such a life after history has cast you into the dustbin, and on the Continent Kerensky either avoids the limelight or people don't bother to play it on him.