Word: lvov
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Professor Karpovich was sent to Washington by the provisional government of Russia a few months after the overthrow of the Czar in 1917. Prince Lvov was at the time head of the government with Kerensky under...
...series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery. Between March 8 and March 12 these leaderless disorders reached such a pitch that the Duma found the Tsarist authority had vanished and set up a Temporary Governing Committee which two days later became the Cabinet of Prince Lvov in which M. Kerensky was Minister of Justice. Next day representatives of the Duma obtained the abdication of the Tsar. Russians were all but stupefied that the Tsarist regime was so rotten at the core as to topple after four days of disorder in Petrograd. Troops ordered to shoot down...