LXXIII.

"By the way, just as an aside, Kerensky lived a very, very long life. At the end of his life, he taught this course at Stanford University. There's a story that's probably apocryphal. This is in very contentious times in American politics in the late 1960s. I can vaguely remember those days. A student, not realizing it was Kerensky, asked a question saying, "How could the provisional government be so stupid in their conduct of those operations?" And this clueless person had no idea that this was Kerensky, who was an historian and was trained as an historian. He died shortly thereafter. But that is really amazing to think. Of course, Lenin dies in 1924 or 1925, but Kerensky went on and on."


© John Merriman
Yale Lectures on European Civilization, 1648-1945 (2008)