HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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HE FLED THE COUNTRY
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HE WAS IMPRISONED
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HE WAS EXECUTED
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HE JOINED THE BOLSHEVIKS
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the last surviving key members of the Russian Revolution, Alexander Kerensky died of cancer in New York City on 11 June 1970. He is buried in Putney Vale cemetery, London, where he had spent the very first part of his exile and where his sons lived.
Detailed explanation-2: -Within hours, the Provisional Government had been deposed and its members had either fled or been arrested. The armed seizure of power was organised and conducted by the Bolsheviks, acting the name of Russia’s Soviets.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the fall of Kerensky’s Menshevik Government, Vladimir Lenin took command. Lenin’s NEP was the adoption of a mixed economy. The Soviet Government controlled major industries, trade and banking, while individuals were allowed to sell their food grains in the open market.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lenin called Kerensky a “loudmouth” and “idiot, ‘’ as the Bolsheviks campaigned on a program of “peace, land, and bread.”