Comrade Kerensky. The anti-monarchist revolution and the formation of a cult of the leader of the people March - June 17

In his innovative study, the author shows that the cult of the leader of the people, known to us from the figures of Lenin and Stalin, was born not in Soviet times, but in the spring and summer of 1917. "First love of the revolution" Alexander Kerensky became the first carrier and partly the inventor of this cult. The tradition of monarchical culture did not disappear without a trace. Having enriched in the tradition of veneration of party leaders, it was revived in the new image of the unique leader of the revolutionary army and the revolutionary people, which was in demand by different layers of society.
Boris Kolonitsky-Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Faculty of History of the European University in St. Petersburg, leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences