Rules of life of the Russian revolutionary Alexander Kerensky

• The rules of life of the Russian revolutionary Alexander Kerensky

The Russian revolutionary and statesman; Minister-President of the Provisional Government, died in 1970 at the age of 89

We are destined to repeat the tale of the French Revolution!

We, ladies and gentlemen, there is a much more dangerous enemy than the German influence than treachery and betrayal of individuals. This - the system: a system of irresponsible despotism, the system of the medieval idea of ​​the state not as an European modern state, but as a fiefdom, where there is a master and slaves.

The whole revolution in Russia took place for 72 hours: the 27th night was delayed session of the State Duma, and March 2 in the afternoon the Emperor signed his abdication manifesto - that for three days turned not only the political history of Russia, but also social.

As Minister of Justice, I remember an incredible, wonderful sense of joy signed telegram to Siberia, the governors, the release of the five Bolshevik, who was exiled at the beginning of the 1914 war; the release of the Social Democratic faction, which has been almost entirely all sentenced to forced labor; the release of "grandmother of the Russian Revolution" Catherine Breshkovsky, then the bosom of my friend - the old woman's 70-plus years that dedicated her life to the struggle against the regime, never even having your own apartment and his own clothing - it was a wonderful woman! The government can be overthrown by force of arms; its individual representatives can be destroyed physically, but the interim government sworn to bring the country to the Constituent Assembly, on his chosen path of struggle for Russia, for the restoration of the State will not retreat.

Anyone who spent the days of the State Conference in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, these days will never forget. The entire rainbow of political opinion, the whole gamut of public sentiment, all the tension of internal struggle, all the power of patriotic anxiety, all the fury of social hatred, the bitterness, all the accumulated hurts and insults - all rapid flow aspired to the stage, to the table of the Provisional Government.

Solid State Duma at that time, in the years 1916-17, played a very important role; it was the only free source to tell the people the truth about the situation in the country to come together.

Anyone who wants to build a new building should be able to carve new shapes from stone.

They - the old, seasoned experience of public and political figures - more than anyone should have to understand how a huge, inhuman patience needed to have, building Russia in the first months after the catastrophe, equal to which the world has not seen, perhaps, since the fall of the Roman Empire. Patience there, however, they have not had enough! After all, the revolutionary left hot horses kicking strongly, until we went into the shafts of the power. I thought: the consciousness of public responsibility align, vymushtruet politically and General Kornilov with his closest military friends.

It must be admitted, then the Bolsheviks acted with great energy and no less skill.

Marat of the Russian revolution, I never will.

The main principle of any constitution is the provision that the supreme power can not take the law without the approval of the people's representatives.

You still have the words "revolution" understand some anti-state actions that destroy the state, when the whole history of the world says that the revolution was by the only means of saving the state.

Man - a being believing. He always seeks to transform the world in accordance with their internal attitude. This is - the religious instinct and no scientific knowledge can not manage it.