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Quotes About Kerensky

The vote for the Constituent Assembly showed that if a determined leader such as Kerensky or Kornilov decided to rally patriotic feeling across the country, that feeling could turn against the German invader as well as Lenin's Bolshevik accomplices
~ Arthur Herman
The time had come for no more czars. Russia was on the verge of violent revolution; only a complete break from the past, Kerensky insisted, would persuade the masses that a new, more just future was dawning, and that the forces of despotism were now yielding to the forces of freedom.
~ Arthur Herman
They would take advantage of an uprising to seize the reins themselves; they would turn upon their allies as they had done with Kerensky in Russia.
~ Upton Sinclair
Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did a political method. For many b those heady moments, Kerensky exemplified 'the democracy'.
~ China Mieville
Kerensky, yes, Kerensky – I think we have to say one of the great wets of history.
~ Isaiah Berlin
First, I want my pants," Kerensky said. Everyone turned to Duvall, who gave everyone a what? expression and then pulled Kerensky's pants out of her duffel and threw them at him. "Second," Kerensky said, fumbling into his pants, "I want to know why we're here.
~ John Scalzi