1917 Kerensky headed the Provisional Government
One hundred years ago, on July 21, 1917, the Socialist-Revolutionary Alexander Kerensky became Minister-Chairman of the Provisional Government, retaining the post of Minister of War and Navy. He unsuccessfully tried to reach an agreement on the support of the government by the bourgeois and right-wing socialist parties, restored the death penalty at the front and appointed General Lavr Kornilov as supreme commander.