Alexander Kerensky was the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who was a key political figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Between the fall of Nicholas II in March 1917 and the rise of Vladimir Lenin in October, Russia’s most significant national leader was Alexander Kerensky. After the February Revolution of 1917, he joined the newly formed Russian Provisional Government, first as Minister of Justice, then as Minister of War. A leader of the moderate-socialist Trudoviks faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, he was also the Vice Chairman of the powerful Petrograd Soviet. On November 7, his Government was overthrown by the Lenin-led Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. He spent the remainder of his life in exile, in Paris and New York City.