Comrade Kerensky: Anti-Monarchy Revolution and the Formation of the Cult of Leader of the Nation. March – June 1917

The author conducted a pioneering research which shows that the cult of the leader of the nation was born not in the Soviet era, but in the summer of 1917. “The first love of the revolution”, Alexander Kerensky, became the first representative, and partly also the inventor, of this cult. The tradition of monarchy had not disappeared without a trace. It was born again, enriched by the tradition of honoring party leaders, and transformed into the new image of a unique leader of a revolutionary army and a revolutionary nation, as requested by the different layers of society. Boris Kolonitskii is a doctor of historical sciences, professor at the Department of History of the European University at St Petersburg and a senior research scholar at St Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Moscow: New Literary Observe, 2017