Russian Government Note, 1917 (1928), A. Kerensky
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Russia. Issued 4.5% internal bond, signed by Alexander Kerensky, a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who was a key political figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the February Revolution of 1917, he joined the newly formed Russian Provisional Government, first as Minister of Justice, then as Minister of War, and after July as the government's second Minister-Chairman. A leader of the moderate-socialist Trudoviks faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, he was also vice-chairman of the powerful Petrograd Soviet. On 7 November, his government was overthrown by the Lenin-led Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. He spent the remainder of his life in exile, in Paris and New York City, and worked for the Hoover Institution. XF to AU. ABNC. (John E. Herzog Collection)
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Russian Government Note, 1917 (1928), A. Kerensky
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